Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/191401 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 7376
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
We study the transmission of monetary policy shocks in a model in which realistic heterogeneity in price rigidity interacts with heterogeneity in sectoral size and input-output linkages, and derive conditions under which these heterogeneities generate large real effects. Empirically, heterogeneity in the frequency of price adjustment is the most important driver behind large real effects, whereas heterogeneity in input-output linkages contributes only marginally, with differences in consumption shares in between. Heterogeneity in price rigidity further is key in determining which sectors are the most important contributors to the transmission of monetary shocks, and is necessary but not sufficient to generate realistic output correlations. In the model and data, reducing the number of sectors decreases monetary non-neutrality with a similar impact response of inflation. Hence, the initial response of inflation to monetary shocks is not sufficient to discriminate across models and for the real effects of nominal shocks.
Subjects: 
input-output linkages
multi-sector
Calvo model
monetary policy
JEL: 
E30
E32
E52
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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