 The Staying Power of Staggered Wage and Price Setting Models in MacroeconomicsChapter Chapter 25 in Handbook of Macroeconomics, 2016, vol. 2, pp 2009-2042 from Elsevier Abstract: After many years, many critiques, and many variations, the staggered wage and price setting model is still the most common method of incorporating nominal rigidities into empirical macroeconomic models used for policy analysis. The aim of this chapter is to examine and reassess the staggered wage and price setting model. The chapter updates and expands on my chapter in the 1999 Handbook of Macroeconomics which reviewed key papers that had already spawned a vast literature. It is meant to be both a survey and user-friendly exposition organized around a simple “canonical†model. It provides a guide to the recent explosion of microeconomic empirical research on wage and price setting, examines central controversies, and reassesses from a longer perspective the advantages and disadvantages of the model as it has been applied in practice. An important question for future research is whether staggered price and wage setting will continue to be the model of choice or whether it needs to be replaced by a new paradigm. Keywords: Staggered contracts; Time-dependent pricing; State-dependent pricing; Contract multiplier; Calvo contracts; Taylor contracts; Hazard rate; Pass-through; Wage Dynamics Network; Nominal rigidities; New Keynesian economics; E3; E4; E5 (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:macchp:v2-2009 DOI: 10.1016/bs.hesmac.2016.04.008 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Handbook of Macroeconomics from Elsevier |
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