Optimal monetary policy with endogenous entry and product variety
Florin Bilbiie,
Ippei Fujiwara and
Fabio Ghironi
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Deviations from long-run price stability are optimal in the presence of endogenous entry and product variety in a sticky-price model in which price stability would be optimal otherwise Long-run inflation (deflation) is optimal when the benefit of variety to consumers falls short of (exceeds) the market incentive for creating that variety--the desired markup; Price indexation exacerbates this mechanism. Plausible preference specifications and parameter values justify positive long-run inflation rates. However, short-run price stability (around this non-zero trend) is close to optimal, even in the presence of endogenously time-varying desired markups that distort the intertemporal allocation of resources.
Keywords: Entry; Optimal inflation rate; Price stability; Product variety; Ramsey-optimal monetary policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-03-14
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Published in Journal of Monetary Economics, 2014, pp.see doi. ⟨10.1016/j.jmoneco.2014.02.006⟩
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jmoneco.2014.02.006
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