Embedding the Kydland-Prescott/Barro-Gordon time-inconsistency logic into a standard sticky-price, cash-credit-goods general equilibrium model, this paper shows the model generically has either two …
PublishedClassicAmerican Economic Journal: MacroeconomicsPublished Jan 2009
Staggered price-setting was long hoped to turn a short spell of exogenous price stickiness into a long spell of endogenous stickiness, and so into persistent output movements after a monetary shock. …