Price Dynamics and Asymmetric Business Cycles under Mixed State and Time Dependent Pricing Rules
Sen Tinni () and
John Conlon
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Sen Tinni: Virginia Military Institute
The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, 2010, vol. 10, issue 1, 28
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This paper considers an optimal pricing model in continuous time that combines state and time dependent elements usually examined separately in the literature. In this model we find that recessions and booms are of roughly equal amplitude, contrary to results in Ball and Mankiw (1994) and Conlon and Liu (1997). On the other hand, while the amplitudes of booms and recessions are similar, their lengths differ. Applying the intuition developed in Ball and Mankiw to our model indicates that firms raise prices less frequently during recessions but more frequently during booms, so price-setters respond to booms more quickly.
Keywords: state dependent pricing; time dependent pricing; asymmetric business cycles (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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DOI: 10.2202/1935-1690.1438
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