We show that the extent of risk-sharing among heterogeneous workers is adeterminant of the degree of monetary non-neutrality in a multisector sticky-price model. Workers are employed in different sectors of the economy and, as a consequence, earn different wages. The inability of workers to...

This paper develops and estimates a multi-sector sticky-price model with heterogeneous households and incomplete markets. I show that household heterogeneity amplifies the persistence and volatility of business cycle fluctuations by generating strategic complementarities in firms' pricing...