Cantelmo, Alessandro; Melina, Giovanni - 2015
In a VAR model of the US, the response of the relative price of durables to a monetary contraction is either flat or … mildly positive. It significantly falls only if narrowly defined as the ratio between new house and nondurables prices. These …-sector New-Keynesian model. Here, the degree of overall durables price stickiness is not dramatically lower than that of …