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Money, Inventories and Underemployment in Deflationary Recessions

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Gerd Weinrich
Luca Colombo

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This paper investigates monetary shocks and the rôle of inventories with respect to the occurrence of deflationary recessions. We propose a non-tâtonnement approach involving temporary equilibria with rationing in each period and price adjustment between successive periods. By amplifying spillover effects inventories imply that, following a restrictive monetary shock, the economy may converge to a quasi-stationary Keynesian underemployment state, in which case money is persistently non-neutral. Contrary to conventional wisdom, this is favored by sufficient downward flexibility of the nominal wage. The model is applied to the current deflationary Japanese recession, and we propose an economic policy to overcome it

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Keywords: Inventories; non-tatonnement; price adjustment; non-neutrality of money; deflationary recession;

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D45 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure and Pricing - - - Rationing; Licensing
D50 - Microeconomics - - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium - - - General
E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles

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