Sticky-Price Models of the Business Cycle: Specification and Stability / Peter N. Ireland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ireland, Peter N.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w7511.

NBER working paper series no. w7511

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Other Title:

Sticky-Price Models of the Business Cycle

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2000.

Summary:

This paper focuses on the specification and stability of a dynamic, stochastic, general equilibrium model of the American business cycle with sticky prices. Maximum likelihood estimates reveal that the data prefer a version of the model in which adjustment costs apply to the price level but not to the inflation rate. Formal hypothesis test detect instability in the estimated parameters, particularly in estimates of the representative household's discount factor. Evidently, more detailed descriptions of the economy are needed to explain movements in interest rates before and after 1979.

Notes:

Print version record

January 2000.