We study the effects of monetary shocks in a model of state-dependent price and wage adjustment based on "control costs". Suppliers of retail goods and of labor are both monopolistic competitors that face idiosyncratic productivity shocks and nominal rigidities. Stickiness arises because precise...

En este trabajo estudiamos los efectos de las perturbaciones monetarias en un modelo donde las probabilidades de ajustar precios y salarios varían con el estado agregado e idiosincrásico debido a los «costes de control». Tanto las empresas al por menor como los trabajadores son competidores...

We study the effects of monetary shocks in a model of state-dependent price and wage adjustment based on "control costs". Suppliers of retail goods and of labor are both monopolistic competitors that face idiosyncratic productivity shocks and nominal rigidities. Stickiness arises because precise...

Este documento estudia un agente cuasirracional que debe escoger entre varias alternativas, pero que se enfrenta a una función de costes para tomar decisiones de manera precisa. A diferencia de la literatura anterior sobre «costes de control», este documento supone que las decisiones llevan...

We model retail price stickiness as the result of errors due to costly decision-making. Under our assumed cost function for the precision of choice, the timing of price adjustments and the prices firms set are both logit random variables. Errors in the prices firms set help explain micro...

We model retail price stickiness as the result of errors due to costly decision-making. Under our assumed cost function for the precision of choice, the timing of price adjustments and the prices firms set are both logit random variables. Errors in the prices firms set help explain micro...

Proponemos un modelo cuasi racional de ajustes de precios en el mercado minorista que es coherente con la evidencia micro y macro de la dinámica de los precios. Nuestro marco está basado en la idea de que evitar errores en las decisiones implica un coste. Dada la asumida función del coste de...

We propose a near-rational model of retail price adjustment consistent with microeconomic and macroeconomic evidence on price dynamics. Our framework is based on the idea that avoiding errors in decision making is costly. Given our assumed cost function for error avoidance, the timing of...