Sluggish Responses of Prices and Inflation to Monetary Shocks in an Inventory Model of Money Demand

Fernando Alvarez, Andrew Atkeson and Chris Edmond ()
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Fernando Alvarez: University of Chicago and National Bureau of Economic Research.
Andrew Atkeson: University of California-Los Angeles, Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, and National Bureau of Economic Research.

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2009, vol. 124, issue 3, pages 911-967

Abstract: We examine the responses of prices and inflation to monetary shocks in an inventory-theoretic model of money demand. We show that the price level responds sluggishly to an exogenous increase in the money stock because the dynamics of households' money inventories leads to a partially offsetting endogenous reduction in velocity. We also show that inflation responds sluggishly to an exogenous increase in the nominal interest rate because changes in monetary policy affect the real interest rate. In a quantitative example, we show that this nominal sluggishness is substantial and persistent if inventories in the model are calibrated to match U.S. households' holdings of M2. (c) 2009 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology..

Date: 2009

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