Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/213830 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
SAFE Working Paper No. 194
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February 10, 2020
Publisher: 
Goethe University Frankfurt, SAFE - Sustainable Architecture for Finance in Europe, Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
Motivated by the consumer behavior literature, this paper presents a new business cycle model in which consumers incur a pain of paying and neglect the opportunity costs of consumption. The model has a unique equilibrium and can be easily solved in closed form. Although consumers maximize their utility and have perfect foresight, there is no Euler equation. Several New Keynesian puzzles disappear as a result: negative supply shocks do not stimulate the economy, lower interest rates are not deflationary, and forward guidance is not overly powerful.
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Working Paper

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