found to help rationalizing the hump-shaped response of inflation, without resorting to the counterfactual assumption of …

different predictions for the optimal inflation rate than their popular homogenous-firm counterparts: (1) the optimal steady …-state inflation rate generically differs from zero and (2) inflation optimally responds to productivity disturbances. We show this by … estimate the historically optimal inflation path for the U.S. economy. In the year 1977, the optimal inflation rate stood at 1 …

restrictions which are not rejected by the data - the cost channel helps to generate an initial rise of inflation after a monetary …

is shown that the firm's optimal adjustment strategy may involve stockouts. At low inflation rates, output is inversely … related to the inflation rate, and the length of time demand is satisfied increases with the demand elasticity but decreases …

We present a new partial equilibrium theory of price adjustment, based on consumer loss aversion. In line with prospect … theory, the consumers’ perceived utility losses from price increases are weighted more heavily than the perceived utility … an otherwise standard dynamic neoclassical model of monopolistic competition. The resulting theory of price adjustment is …