Menu costs and Phillips curves

M Golosov, RE Lucas Jr - Journal of Political Economy, 2007 - journals.uchicago.edu
This paper develops a model of a monetary economy in which individual firms are subject to
idiosyncratic productivity shocks as well as general inflation. Sellers can change price only …

Microeconomic evidence on price-setting

PJ Klenow, BA Malin - Handbook of monetary economics, 2010 - Elsevier
The last decade has seen a burst of micro price studies. Many studies analyze data
underlying national CPIs and PPIs. Others focus on more granular subnational grocery store …

Sticky prices and monetary policy: Evidence from disaggregated US data

J Boivin, MP Giannoni, I Mihov - American economic review, 2009 - aeaweb.org
This paper shows that the recent evidence that disaggregated prices are volatile does not
necessarily challenge the hypothesis of price rigidity used in a large class of …

Sticky prices in the euro area: a summary of new micro-evidence

LJ Alvarez, E Dhyne, M Hoeberichts… - Journal of the …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
This paper summarises the vast evidence on micro price-setting recently obtained for euro
area countries. We consider studies with micro data on consumer and producer prices, as …

Monetary policy under uncertainty in micro-founded macroeconometric models

AT Levin, A Onatski, JC Williams… - NBER …, 2005 - journals.uchicago.edu
We use a micro-founded macroeconometric modeling framework to investigate the design of
monetary policy when the central bank faces uncertainty about the true structure of the …

Optimal price setting with observation and menu costs

FE Alvarez, F Lippi, L Paciello - The Quarterly journal of …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
We study the price-setting problem of a firm in the presence of both observation and menu
costs. The firm optimally decides when to “review” costly information on the adequacy of its …

What firms' surveys tell us about price-setting behavior in the Euro area

S Fabiani, M Druant, I Hernando, C Kwapil, B Landau… - 2006 - mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de
This study investigates the pricing behavior of firms in the euro area on the basis of surveys
conducted by nine Eurosystem national central banks, covering more than 11,000 firms. The …

The pricing behaviour of firms in the euro area: New survey evidence

S Fabiani, M Druant, I Hernando, C Kwapil, B Landau… - 2005 - papers.ssrn.com
This study investigates the pricing behaviour of firms in the euro area on the basis of surveys
conducted by nine Eurosystem national central banks, covering more than 11,000 firms. The …

Can aggregation explain the persistence of inflation?

F Altissimo, B Mojon, P Zaffaroni - Journal of Monetary Economics, 2009 - Elsevier
An aggregation exercise is proposed that aims at investigating whether the fast average
adjustments of the disaggregate inflation series of the euro area CPI is coherent with the …

Estimating a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model for Japan

T Sugo, K Ueda - Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, 2008 - Elsevier
We estimate a medium-scale dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model of the Japanese
economy following Christiano et al.[Christiano, L., Eichenbaum, M., Evans, C., 2005 …