Monetary Shocks in Models with Inattentive Producers

We study models where prices respond slowly to shocks because firms are rationally inattentive. Producers must pay a cost to observe the determinants of the current profit maximizing price, and hence observe them infrequently. To generate large real effects of monetary shocks in such a model the tim...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Alvarez, Fernando E., Lippi, Francesco, Paciello, Luigi
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2016
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4975074/