The Equilibrium and Optimal Timing of Price Changes
This paper studies the welfare properties of the equilibrium timing of price changes. Staggered price-setting has the advantage that it permits rapid adjustment to firm-specific shocks but the disadvantage that it causes price level inertia and therefore increases aggregate fluctuations. Because each firm ignores its contribution to inertia, staggering can be a stable equilibrium even if it is highly inefficient. In addition, there can be multiple equilibria in the timing of price changes; indeed, whenever there is an inefficient staggered equilibrium, there is also an efficient equilibrium with synchronized price-setting.
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| Date of creation: | Oct 1987 |
| Publication status: | published as Review of Economic Studies, Vol. 56 (2), No. 186, pp. 179-198, (April 1989) |
| Handle: | RePEc:nbr:nberwo:2412 |
| Note: | EFG |
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