Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/148143 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
Bank of Canada Staff Working Paper No. 2016-36
Publisher: 
Bank of Canada, Ottawa
Abstract: 
In a simple two-sector New Keynesian model, sticky prices generate a counterfactual negative comovement between the output of durable and nondurable goods following a monetary policy shock. We show that heterogeneous factor markets allow any combination of strictly positive price stickiness to generate positive output comovement. Even if the prices of durable goods are flexible, adding sticky information ensures that the output of both sectors moves in the same direction. Furthermore, we find that the combination of sticky information and heterogeneous factor markets produces humpshaped responses in both sectoral output and inflation, as observed in a vectorautoregression analysis. In contrast to backward indexation to past inflation, which is often assumed in the literature, sticky information leads to a hump-shaped response in the inflation of flexibly priced goods. Finally, the estimated information stickiness through the minimum-distance estimation method suggests that information rigidity is stronger in residential investment than nondurable goods and services.
Subjects: 
Inflation and prices
Transmission of monetary policy
JEL: 
E31
E32
E52
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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