Pricing decisions in an experimental dynamic stochastic general equilibrium economy

Charles Noussair, Damjan Pfajfar and Janos Zsiros

No 2014-93, Finance and Economics Discussion Series from Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.)

Abstract: We construct experimental economies, populated with human subjects, with a structure based on a nonlinear version of the New Keynesian Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) model. We analyze the behavior of firms' pricing decisions in four different experimental economies. We consider how well the experimental data conform to a number of accepted empirical stylized facts. Pricing patterns mostly conform to these patterns. Most price changes are positive, and inflation is strongly correlated with average magnitude, but not the frequency, of price changes. Prices are affected negatively by the productivity shock and positively by the output gap. Lagged real interest rate has a negative effect on prices, unless human subjects choose the interest rate, or firms sell perfect substitutes in the output market. There is inertia in price setting, firms integrate wage increases into their prices, and there is evidence of adaptive behavior in price-setting in our laboratory economy. The hazard function for price changes, however, is upward-sloping, in contrast to most empirical studies.

Keywords: Experimental economics; DSGE economy; pricing behavior; menu costs (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C91 C92 E31 E32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 27 pages
Date: 2014-10-24
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dge, nep-exp and nep-mac
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