Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/4082 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 3033
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper explores the influence of wage and price staggering on monetary persistence. We show that, for plausible parameter values, wage and price staggering are complementary in generating monetary persistence. We do so by proposing the new measure of quantitative inertia, after discussing weaknesses of the contract multiplier, a standard measure of monetary persistence. The existence of complementarities means that beyond understanding how wage and price staggering work in isolation, it is important to investigate their interactions. Furthermore, our analysis indicates that the degree of monetary persistence generated by wage vis-à-vis price staggering depends on the relative competitiveness of the labor and product markets. We show that the conventional finding that wage staggering generates more persistence than price staggering holds under homogenous capital accumulation. Under firm-specific capital, wage staggering generates more persistence only when the labor market is sufficiently competitive relative to the product market. -- Monetary persistence ; price staggering ; wage staggering ; firm-specific capital
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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