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Nominal rigidities in debt and product markets

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  • Carlos Garriga

    (Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis)

  • Finn E. Kydland

    (NBER
    University of California-Santa Barbara (UCSB))

  • Roman Sustek

    (CERGE-EI
    Centre for Macroeconomics (CFM)
    School of Economics and Finance Queen Mary)

Abstract

Standard models used for monetary policy analysis rely on sticky prices. Recently, the literature started to explore also nominal debt contracts. Focusing on mortgages, this paper compares the two channels of transmission within a common framework. The sticky price channel is dominant when shocks to the policy interest rate are temporary, the mortgage channel is important when the shocks are persistent. The first channel has significant aggregate effects but small redistributive effects. The opposite holds for the second channel. Using yield curve data decomposed into temporary and persistent components, the redistributive and aggregate consequences are found to be quantitatively comparable.

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  • Carlos Garriga & Finn E. Kydland & Roman Sustek, 2016. "Nominal rigidities in debt and product markets," Discussion Papers 1625, Centre for Macroeconomics (CFM).
    • Handle: RePEc:cfm:wpaper:1625
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    Keywords

    Mortgage contracts; Sticky prices; Monetary policy; Yield curve; Redistributive vs. aggregate effects;
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    JEL classification:

    • E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles
    • E52 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Monetary Policy
    • G21 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Banks; Other Depository Institutions; Micro Finance Institutions; Mortgages
    • R21 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Household Analysis - - - Housing Demand

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