Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/75672 
Year of Publication: 
1999
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 184
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
Money illusion means that people behave differently when the same objective situation is represented in nominal or in real terms. To examine the behavioral impact of money illusion we studied the adjustment process of nominal prices after a fully anticipated negative nominal shock in an experimental setting with strategic complementarity. We show that seemingly innocuous differences in payoff presentation cause large behavioral differences. In particular, if the payoff information is presented to subjects in nominal terms, price stickiness and real effects are much more pronounced than when payoff information is presented in real terms. The driving force of differences in real outcomes is subjects' expectation of higher nominal inertia in the nominal payoff condition. Due to strategic complementarity, these expectations induce subjects to adjust rather slowly to the shock.
Subjects: 
Money illusion
nominal inertia
sticky prices
non-neutrality of money
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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