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Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary Abstract We propose a model that reconciles microeconomic evidence of frequent and large price changes with sizable monetary non-neutrality. Firms incur separate lump-sum costs to change prices and to gather and process some information about marginal costs. Additional relevant information is continuously available, and can be factored into pricing decisions at no cost. We estimate the model by Simulated Method of Moments, using price-setting statistics for the U.S. economy. The model with free idiosyncratic and costly aggregate information fits well both targeted and untargeted microeconomic moments and generates almost three times as much monetary non-neutrality as the Calvo model.

Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms menu costs; information costs; infrequent information; monetary non-neutrality; partial information; inattention; optimal price setting; state-dependent pricing; time-dependent pricing
JEL Classification:  View help for JEL Classification
      E00 Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics: General
      E31 Price Level; Inflation; Deflation


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