Heterogeneity in pricing behavior in hybrid DSGE-ABM macrodynamics

Nikolas Schiozer (), Gilberto Lima and Michel Alexandre

No 2024_26, Working Papers, Department of Economics from University of São Paulo (FEA-USP)

Abstract: There is considerable evidence that pricing behavior is persistently heterogeneous across firms. We explore hybrid DSGE-ABM macrodynamics in which imperfectly competitive firms have limited information about market conditions and periodically revise (and possibly switch) their pricing strategies. Firms choose a pricing heuristic out of a set of alternatives including a cost-based heuristic with a standard markup, a cost-based heuristic with a quality-adjusted markup, and a heuristic of following the pricing behavior of competitors. For merely illustrative purposes, we employ the method of simulated moments to calibrate the model with quarterly data for the U.S. economy. The model qualitatively reproduces several stylized facts concerning the strategic pricing behavior of firms, such as the persistence of heterogeneity in pricing heuristics and price stickiness. Thus, embedding some tenets of the agent-based modeling (ABM) approach, such as that interacting heterogeneous firms evolutionarily learn and adapt to the environment, into a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model allows it to qualitatively reproduce to a considerable extent the persistent heterogeneity in pricing behavior across firms without compromising its ability to also reproduce several stylized macroeconomic facts.

Keywords: Pricing behavior; heterogeneous behavior; agent-based model; dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C63 D21 D90 E70 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024-11-05
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dge and nep-inv
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.repec.eae.fea.usp.br/documentos/Schiozer_Lima_Alexandre_26WP.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spa:wpaper:2024wpecon26

Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers, Department of Economics from University of São Paulo (FEA-USP) Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Pedro Garcia Duarte ( this e-mail address is bad, please contact ).