Author : Michael B. Devereux
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
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Book Synopsis Predetermined Prices and the Persistent Effects of Money on Output by : Michael B. Devereux
Download or read book Predetermined Prices and the Persistent Effects of Money on Output written by Michael B. Devereux and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper illustrates a model of predetermined pricing, where firms set a fixed schedule of nominal prices at the time of price readjustment, based on the work of Fischer (1977). This type of price-setting specification cannot produce any excess persistence in a fixed-duration model of staggered prices, but we show that with a probabilistic model of price adjustment, as in Calvo (1983), a predetermined pricing specification can produce excess persistence. Moreover, in response to a money shock, the aggregate dynamics are very similar to those under a specification of fixed prices, the assumption underlying most recent dynamic sticky-price models.