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American Economic Review: Vol. 97 No. 3 (June 2007)
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Sticky-Price Models and Durable Goods
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Barsky, Robert B.,
Christopher L. House, and
Miles S. Kimball. 2007. "Sticky-Price Models and Durable Goods."
American Economic Review,
97(3): 984-998.
DOI: 10.1257/aer.97.3.984
DOI: 10.1257/aer.97.3.984
Abstract
The inclusion of a durable goods sector in sticky-price models has strong and unexpected implications. Even if most prices are flexible, a small durable goods sector with sticky prices may be sufficient to make aggregate output react to monetary policy as though most prices were sticky. In contrast, flexibly priced durables with sufficiently long service lives can undo the implications of standard sticky price models. In a limiting
case, flexibly priced durables cause monetary policy to have no effect on aggregate
output. Our analysis suggests that durable goods prices are the most relevant data for
calibrating price rigidity. (JEL E21, E23, E31, E52)
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Barsky, Robert B.
House, Christopher L.
Kimball, Miles S.
House, Christopher L.
Kimball, Miles S.
