Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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7368705 | Journal of Monetary Economics | 2015 | 19 Pages |
Abstract
Economists have interpreted the evidence that prices change every four months as implying that sticky prices cannot be important for monetary transmission. Theory implies that this interpretation is correct if most price changes are regular, but not if a large fraction are temporary, as in the data. Since regular prices are much stickier than temporary ones, our models predict that the stickiness of the aggregate price level matches that in a standard Calvo model or a standard menu cost model in which micro-level prices change about once a year. In this sense, prices are sticky after all.
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Authors
Patrick Kehoe, Virgiliu Midrigan,