impact of the zero bound on the effectiveness of interest rate policy in Japan in terms of stabilizing output and inflation … interest rates as experienced in Japan since the mid-1990s. Our analysis is based on an estimated model of Japan, the United …

alternative monetary policy strategies. We start with the relationship between output and inflation and investigate the fit of the … reject the nominal contracting model in favor of the relative contracting model which induces more inflation persistence, we … in countries which transitioned out of a high inflation regime such as France and Italy. We close the model by estimating …

looking pricing account for the observed persistence in aggregate inflation. Second, price-setting responds to movements in … marginal costs, which should therefore be the driving force to observed inflation dynamics. This is not always the case in …) inflation, and underestimating the importance of (aggregate) marginal costs for (aggregate) inflation. We provide intuition for …