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Sticky Prices as Coordination Failure / Laurence Ball, David Romer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ball, Laurence.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w2327.
- NBER working paper series no. w2327
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Business cycles.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 1987.
- Cambridge, Mass : National Bureau of Economic Research, 1987.
- Summary:
- This paper shows that nominal price rigidity can arise from a failure to coordinate price changes. If a firm's desired price is increasing in others' prices, then the gains to the firm from adjusting its price after a nominal shock are greater if others adjust. This "strategic complementarity" in price adjustment can lead to multiple equilibria in the degree of nominal rigidity. Welfare may be much higher in the equilibria with less rigidity. In addition, with multiple equilibrium degrees of rigidity, the economy may have several short-run equilibria but a unique long-run equilibrium.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- July 1987.
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