• Title of article

    Distributionaldynamicsundersmoothlystate-dependentpricing

  • Author/Authors

    James Costain، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2011
  • Pages
    20
  • From page
    646
  • To page
    665
  • Abstract
    Starting fromtheassumptionthatfirmsaremorelikelytoadjusttheirpriceswhendoing soismorevaluable,thispaperanalyzesmonetary policyshocksinaDSGEmodelwith firm-levelheterogeneity.Themodeliscalibratedtoretailpricemicrodata,andinflation responsesaredecomposedinto‘‘intensive’’,‘‘extensive’’,and‘‘selection’’margins.Money growth andTaylorruleshocksbothhavenontrivialrealeffects,becausethelowstate dependence impliedbythedatarulesoutthestrongselectioneffectassociatedwithfixed menucosts.Theresponsetosector-specificshocks isgradual,butinappropriateecono- metricsmightmakeitappearimmediate.
  • Journal title
    Journal of Monetary Economics
  • Serial Year
    2011
  • Journal title
    Journal of Monetary Economics
  • Record number

    846500