Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/161906 
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Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 6467
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
This paper proposes a novel mechanism by which changes in the distribution of money holdings have real effects. Specifically, I develop a flexible-price model of segmented asset markets that generates real aggregate effects of monetary policy through the dependence of optimal markups on the heterogeneity of money holdings. Because varieties of consumption bundles are purchased sequentially, newly injected money disseminates slowly throughout the economy via second-round effects. The model predicts a short-term inflation-output trade-off, a liquidity effect, countercyclical markups, and procyclical wages after monetary shocks. Among other correlations of financial variables, it also reproduces the empirical, negative relationship between changes in the money supply and markups.
Subjects: 
segmented asset markets
monetary policy
countercyclical markups
liquidity effect
heterogenous money holdings
JEL: 
E31
E32
E51
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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