Recent literature reaches contrasting conclusions on the ability of price/wage staggering models to generate output persistence. We derive fairly general results from a stylised log-linear model which encompasses most of the microfounded model of price/wage staggering. Our results highlight the...

Recent empirical evidence identifies investment shocks as key driving forces behind business cycle fluctuations. However, existing New Keynesian models emphasizing these shocks counterfactually imply a negative unconditional correlation between consumption growth and investment growth, a weak...