Recent studies on shifting trend inflation use the Standard New Keynesian model with Calvo price settingto address welfare issues. Within this framework, the transmission mechanism gets mainly through pricedispersion as an inefficient source of distortion in the output. As a result, firms have...

The existing literature on shifting trend inflation has, for the most part, focused on the Calvo staggered nominal contracts to address welfare issues. This paper proposes alternative nominal contracts in the form of Taylor in a fully specified medium small-scale New Keynesian Model featuring...