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dc.contributor.authorAlvarez, F.
dc.contributor.authorLe Bihan, Herve
dc.contributor.authorLippi, F.
dc.date.accessioned2017-08-24T02:23:38Z
dc.date.available2017-08-24T02:23:38Z
dc.date.created2017-08-23T07:21:43Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.identifier.citationAlvarez, F. and Le Bihan, H. and Lippi, F. 2016. The real effects of monetary shocks in sticky price models: A sufficient statistic approach. American Economic Review. 106 (10): pp. 2817-2851.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/56346
dc.identifier.doi10.1257/aer.20140500
dc.description.abstract

We prove that the ratio of kurtosis to the frequency of price changes is a sufficient statistic for the real effects of monetary shocks, measured by the cumulated output response following the shock. The sufficient statistic result holds in a large class of models which includes Taylor (1980); Calvo (1983); Reis (2006); Golosov and Lucas (2007); Nakamura and Steinsson (2010); Midrigan (2011); and Alvarez and Lippi (2014). Several models in this class are able to account for the positive excess kurtosis of the size distribution of price changes that appears in the data. We review empirical measures of kurtosis and frequency and conclude that a model that successfully matches the microevidence on kurtosis and frequency produces real effects that are about four times larger than in the Golosov-Lucas model, and about 30 percent below those of the Calvo model. We discuss the robustness of our results to changes in the setup, including small inflation and leptokurtic cost shocks.

dc.titleThe real effects of monetary shocks in sticky price models: A sufficient statistic approach
dc.typeJournal Article
dcterms.source.volume106
dcterms.source.number10
dcterms.source.startPage2817
dcterms.source.endPage2851
dcterms.source.issn0002-8282
dcterms.source.titleAmerican Economic Review
curtin.departmentSchool of Economics and Finance
curtin.accessStatusFulltext not available


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