Sticky Prices and Volatile Output
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Journal of Monetary Economics, 2000, 46, 3, 621-632
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ELLISON, Martin, SCOTT, Andrew, Sticky Prices and Volatile Output, Journal of Monetary Economics, 2000, 46, 3, 621-632 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/16764
Abstract
We examine the effect of introducing a specific type of price stickiness into a stochastic growth model, subject to a cash in advance constraint. As in previous studies, we find the introduction of price rigidities provides a substantial source of monetary non-neutrality which contributes significantly to output volatility. We show that the introduction of this form of sticky prices improves the model's performance at explaining inflation but worsens it for output. The most dramatic failure of the model is the extremely high-frequency fluctuations in output that it generates. Sticky prices not only fail to produce persistent business cycle fluctuations but they generate extreme volatility at very high frequencies.