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Deep Habits and the Dynamic Effects of Monetary Policy Shocks

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  • Morten O. Ravn
  • Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe
  • Martín Uribe
  • Lenno Uuskula

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This paper introduces deep habits into a sticky-price sticky-wage economy and asks whether the countercyclical markup movements induced by deep habits is helpful for accounting for the dynamic effects of monetary policy shocks. We find that this is the case: When allowing for deep habits, the model can account very precisely for the persistent impact of monetary policy shocks on aggregate consumption and for the impact on inflation that other models have hard a time explaining. In particular, the model can account both for the price puzzle and for inflation persistence. We also show that the deep habits mechanism and nominal rigidities are complementary: The deep habits model can account for the dynamic effects of monetary policy shock at low to moderate levels of nominal rigidities. We show that the results are stable over time and are not caused by monetary policy changes.

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Keywords: deep habits; monetary policy; price puzzle; inflation persistence; countercyclical markups;

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  1. Thomas A. Lubik & Wing Leong Teo, . "Deep Habits in the New Keynesian Phillips Curve," Discussion Papers 11/13, University of Nottingham, Centre for Finance, Credit and Macroeconomics (CFCM).
  2. Campbell Leith & Ioana Moldovan & Raffaele Rossi, . "Optimal Monetary Policy in a New Keynesian Model with Habits in Consumption," Review of Economic Dynamics, Elsevier for the Society for Economic Dynamics.
  3. V. Lewis & C. Poilly, 2011. "Firm Entry, Inflation and the Monetary Transmission Mechanism," Working Papers of Faculty of Economics and Business Administration, Ghent University, Belgium 11/705, Ghent University, Faculty of Economics and Business Administration.
  4. Alexander Kriwoluzky, 2009. "Matching Theory and Data: Bayesian Vector Autoregression and Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Models," Economics Working Papers ECO2009/29, European University Institute.
  5. Campbell Leith & Ioana Moldovan & Raffaele Rossi, 2009. "Monetary and fiscal policy under deep habits," Working Papers 2009_32, Business School - Economics, University of Glasgow.

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