Monetary Dynamics in a Network Economy

Antoine Mandel and Vipin P. Veetil ()
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Vipin P. Veetil: Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Madras

Documents de travail du Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne from Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris 1), Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne

Abstract: We develop a tractable model of out-of-equilibrium dynamics in a general equilibrium economy with cash-in-advance constraints. The dynamics emerge from local interactions between firms governed by the production network underlying the economy. We analytically characterise the influence of network structure on the propagation of monetary shocks. In the long run, the model converges to general equilibrium and the quantity theory of money holds. In the short run, monetary shocks propagate upstream via nominal demand changes and downstream via real supply changes. Lags in the evolution of supply and demand at the micro level can give rise to arbitrary dynamics of the distribution of prices. Our model explains the long standing Price Puzzle: a temporary rise in the price level in response to monetary contractions. The Price Puzzle emerges under two assumptions about downstream firms: they are disproportionally affected by monetary contractions and they account for a sufficiently small share of the wage bill. Empirical evidence supports the two assumptions for the US economy. Our model calibrated to the US economy using a data set of more than fifty thousand firms generates the empirically observed magnitude of the price level rise after monetary contractions

Keywords: Price Puzzle; Production Network; Money; Monetary Non-Neutrality; Out-of-Equilibrium Dynamics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C63 C67 D80 E31 E52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 38 pages
Date: 2019-10
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cba, nep-mac and nep-mon
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Journal Article: Monetary dynamics in a network economy (2021)
Working Paper: Monetary dynamics in a network economy (2021)
Working Paper: Monetary dynamics in a network economy (2021)
Working Paper: Monetary dynamics in a network economy (2021)
Working Paper: Monetary Dynamics in a Network Economy (2019)
Working Paper: Monetary Dynamics in a Network Economy (2019)
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