The empirical study undertaken here employs a structural VAR to estimate the dynamic adjustment of manufacturing sales and inventories to both nominal demand and real supply shocks. The analysis suggests that these impulse responses are generally consistent with those of an equilibrium model of...

In this paper we present a generalized sticky price model which allows, depending on the parameterization, for demand shocks to maintain strong expansionary effects even in the presence of perfectly flexible prices. The model is constructed to incorporate the standard three-equation New...

This paper provides evidence for the impact of technology, labor supply, monetary policy and aggregate spending shocks on hours worked in the Euro area. The evidence is based on a vector autoregression identified using sign restrictions that are consistent with both sticky price and real...