Firm-Specific Capital, Nominal Rigidities and the Business Cycle

David Altig, Lawrence Christiano, Martin Eichenbaum and Jesper Lindé

No 11034, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: Macroeconomic and microeconomic data paint conflicting pictures of price behavior. Macroeconomic data suggest that inflation is inertial. Microeconomic data indicate that firms change prices frequently. We formulate and estimate a model which resolves this apparent micro - macro conflict. Our model is consistent with post-war U.S. evidence on inflation inertia even though firms re-optimize prices on average once every 1.5 quarters. The key feature of our model is that capital is firm-specific and pre-determined within a period.

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Date: 2005-01
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Published as David Altig & Lawrence Christiano & Martin Eichenbaum & Jesper Linde, . "Firm-Specific Capital, Nominal Rigidities and the Business Cycle," Review of Economic Dynamics, Elsevier for the Society for Economic Dynamics.

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