Arbeitspapier

The Selection Effect and the Inflation-Output Variability Trade-off

It has been shown that extending the Calvo model to account for the heterogeneity in price stickiness suggested by the micro-evidence significantly improves the performance of the model. In the new model, price-changing firms are chosen disproportionately from sectors with more flexible prices. In this paper, I show that this selection effect significantly affects policy conclusions that arise from the model. In the new model, the level and the variability of inflation is higher than in the Calvo model with no selection effect. Attempting to lower inflation’s variability results in a significant increase output’s variability, without changing inflation’s variability much.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 5664

Classification
Wirtschaft
Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics: General
Subject
DSGE models
selection effect
variance trade-off
Multiple Calvo
Calvo

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Kara, Engin
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
(where)
Munich
(when)
2015

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  • Arbeitspapier

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  • Kara, Engin
  • Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)

Time of origin

  • 2015

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