We present a new way of empirically evaluating various sticky price models used to assess the degree of monetary non-neutrality. While menu cost models uniformly predict that price change skewness and dispersion fall with inflation, in the Calvo model both rise. However, CPI price data from the...

This paper offers a detailed investigation of the foreign exchange risk premium using a structural relationship in the inflation-index bond market, firstly introduced by Clarida (2012). Unlike the conventional VAR approach, this approach estimates risk premium through the non-arbitrage...

Firms are connected through the production network. Meanwhile, the production linkages coincide with financial linkages owing to delays in input payments that amount to a form of trade credit. In this paper, I investigate the roles of these interconnected production and financial linkages in the...

Optimal monetary policy depends crucially on whether agents have exogenous, endogenous-inelastic, or endogenous-elastic attention. We show in this paper that, under elastic attention, optimal monetary policy may induce equilibria that are not possible under the other two settings: decision...

A key policy question is: How high an inflation rate should central banks target? This depends crucially on the costs of inflation. An important concern is that high inflation will lead to inefficient price dispersion. Workhorse New Keynesian models imply that this cost of inflation is very...

The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) provided small businesses with roughly $800 billion dollars in uncollateralized, low-interest loans during the pandemic, almost all of which will be forgiven. With 93 percent of small businesses ultimately receiving one or more loans, the PPP nearly...

The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), a principal element of the fiscal stimulus enacted by Congress during the COVID-19 pandemic, aimed to assist small businesses to maintain employment and wages during the crisis. We use high-frequency administrative payroll data from ADP--one of the...