Setting The Right Prices for the Wrong Reasons

Venky Venkateswaran and Christian Hellwig

No 260, 2009 Meeting Papers from Society for Economic Dynamics

Abstract: about fundamentals based on their own cash flows (revenues and wages). We show that in a model with realistic levels of product-level price dispersion, the firms’ inference about aggregate shocks is very gradual, yet in the aggregate prices adjust rapidly in response to aggregate nominal shocks. When an aggregate shock occurs, firms mistakenly attribute it to firm-specific shocks, but adjust prices nevertheless, since the exact nature of the shock matters little for its optimal pricing decision.

Date: 2009
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