Monetary Shocks in a Model with Inattentive Producers

Fernando Alvarez, Francesco Lippi and Luigi Paciello ()

No 9228, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

Abstract: We study a model in which prices respond slowly to shocks because firms must pay a fixed cost to observe the determinants of the profit maximizing price, as pioneered by Caballero (1989) and Reis (2006). We extend their analysis to the case of random tran- sitory variation in the firm?s observation cost and characterize the mapping from the distribution of observation cost to the distribution of the times between consecutive re- views/price adjustments of a firm. We aggregate a continuum of firms and characterize analytically the cross-sectional distribution of the duration of reviews/prices. We establish the dependence of the real effect of a monetary shock on the distribution of price durations and hence on the distribution of observation costs and discuss applications.

Keywords: Impulse responses.; Inattentiveness; Monetary shocks; Observation costs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-11
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