Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/309129 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 2024-10
Publisher: 
Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, Atlanta, GA
Abstract: 
Existing menu cost models, when parameterized to match the micro-price data, cannot reproduce the extent to which the fraction of price changes increases with inflation. In addition, in the presence of strategic complementarities, they predict implausibly large menu costs and misallocation. We resolve these shortcomings using a multi-product menu cost model that features two key ingredients. First, the products sold by a firm are imperfect substitutes. Second, strategic complementarities are at the firm level, not the product level. In contrast to existing models, the fraction of price changes increases rapidly with the size of monetary shocks, so our model implies a nonlinear Phillips curve.
Subjects: 
menu costs
inflation
Phillips curve
JEL: 
E12
E31
E32
E52
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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