Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/249736 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
Texto para discussão No. 688
Publisher: 
Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Departamento de Economia, Rio de Janeiro
Abstract: 
We propose a model that reconciles microeconomic evidence of frequent and large price changes with sizable monetary non-neutrality. Firms incur separate lump-sum costs to change prices and to gather and process some information about marginal costs. Additional relevant information is continuously available, and can be factored into pricing decisions at no cost. We estimate the model by Simulated Method of Moments, using price-setting statistics for the U.S. economy. The model with free idiosyncratic and costly aggregate information fits well both targeted and untargeted microeconomic moments and generates almost three times as much monetary non-neutrality as the Calvo model.
Subjects: 
menu costs
information costs
infrequent information
partial information
inattention
optimal price setting
state-dependent pricing
time-dependent pricing
JEL: 
E00
E31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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