Staggered Price-Setting, Staggered Wage-Setting, and Business Cycle Persistence∗
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Staggered price-setting and staggered wage-setting are commonly viewed as similar mechanisms in generating persistent real effects of monetary shocks. In this paper, we distinguish the two mechanisms in a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium framework. We show that, although the dynamic pricesetting and wage-setting equations are alike, a key parameter governing persistence is linked to the underlying preferences and technologies in different ways. With reasonable parameter values, the staggered price mechanism by itself is incapable of, while the staggered wage mechanism plays an important role in generating persistence.
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