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Staggered prices in a utility-maximizing framework

Guillermo A. Calvo
- 01 Sep 1983 - 
- Vol. 12, Iss: 3, pp 383-398
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In this article, the authors developed a model of staggered prices along the lines of Phelps (1978) and Taylor (1979, 1980), but utilizing an analytically more tractable price-setting technology.
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This article is published in Journal of Monetary Economics.The article was published on 1983-09-01. It has received 8580 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Nominal rigidity & Taylor rule.

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Empirical Evidence on Inflation Expectations in the New Keynesian Phillips Curve

TL;DR: The authors review the main identification strategies and empirical evidence on the role of expectations in the New Keynesian Phillips curve, paying particular attention to the issue of weak identi cies and weak identici cies.
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Unconventional Fiscal Policy at the Zero Bound

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that tax policy can deliver stimulus at no cost and in a time-consistent manner when the zero lower bound on nominal interest rates binds, and that there is no need to use inecient policies such as monetary policy.
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Monetary Policy, Trend Inflation, and the Great Moderation: An Alternative Interpretation

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provided new theoretical results on restoring determinacy in New Keynesian models with positive trend inflation and combine these with new empirical findings on the Federal Reserve's reaction function before and after the Volcker disinflation to find that while the Fed likely satisfied the Taylor principle in the pre-Volcker era, the US economy was still subject to self-fulfilling fluctuations in the 1970s, and the switch from indeterminacy to determinacy was due to the changes in the Fed's response to macroeconomic variables and the decline in trend inflation during the
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Fluctuating Macro Policies and the Fiscal Theory

TL;DR: In this article, the authors estimate regime-switching rules for monetary policy and tax policy over the post-war period in the United States and imposes the estimated policy process on a calibrated dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model with nominal rigidities.
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What Firms' Surveys Tell Us about Price-Setting Behavior in the Euro Area

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the pricing behavior of firms in the euro area on the basis of surveys conducted by nine Eurosystem national central banks, covering more than 11,000 firms and found that firms operate in monopolistically competitive markets, where prices are mostly set following markup rules and where price discrimination is common.
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The Theory of Matrices

TL;DR: In this article, the Routh-Hurwitz problem of singular pencils of matrices has been studied in the context of systems of linear differential equations with variable coefficients, and its applications to the analysis of complex matrices have been discussed.
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Aggregate Dynamics and Staggered Contracts

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that staggered wage contracts as short as 1 year are capable of generating the type of unemployment persistence which has been observed during postwar business cycles in the United States.
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"Rational" Expectations, the Optimal Monetary Instrument, and the Optimal Money Supply Rule

TL;DR: In this paper, alternative monetary policies are analyzed in an ad hoc macroeconomic model in which the public's expectations about prices are rational, and it turns out that the probility distribution of output is independent of the particular deterministic money supply rule in effect.
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Public Investment, the Rate of Return, and Optimal Fiscal Policy

TL;DR: In this paper, a theory of "controllability" is developed and injected into public economics and growth models to analyze optimal public expenditures in the context of modern growth theory, and a model of optimal growth with public capital is proposed.
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