Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/65784 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
Cardiff Economics Working Papers No. E2008/22
Publisher: 
Cardiff University, Cardiff Business School, Cardiff
Abstract: 
This paper adopts the Impulse-Response methodology to understand inflation persistence. It has often been argued that existing models of pricing fail to explain the persistence that we observe. We adopt a common general framework which allows for an explicit modelling of the distribution of contract lengths and for different types of price setting. We also evaluate how far the theories are consistent with recent evidence on price and wage rigidity. We find that allowing for a distribution of durations can take us a long way to solving the puzzle of inflation persistence, but not all the way yet.
Subjects: 
DSGE models
inflation
persistence
price-setting
JEL: 
E17
E3
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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