Título: | INFORMATIONAL FRICTIONS AND INFLATION DYNAMICS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Autor: |
MARTA BALTAR MOREIRA AREOSA |
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Colaborador(es): |
VINICIUS DO NASCIMENTO CARRASCO - Orientador |
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Catalogação: | 17/AGO/2010 | Língua(s): | ENGLISH - UNITED STATES |
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Tipo: | TEXT | Subtipo: | THESIS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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[pt] https://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/projetosEspeciais/ETDs/consultas/conteudo.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=16151&idi=1 [en] https://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/projetosEspeciais/ETDs/consultas/conteudo.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=16151&idi=2 |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.17771/PUCRio.acad.16151 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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This thesis encompasses three essays on price setting under stickydispersed
information (SDI). The baseline framework mixes the sticky
information model of Mankiw and Reis (2002) with dispersed information
models like Morris and Shin (2002) and Angeletos and Pavan (2007). In
Chapter 1, we derive the equilibrium of the game assuming that firms face
strategic complementarity on their pricing decisions. In this context, firms take
their pricing decisions using information to build expectations on the prices set
by other firms and on the current state of aggregate nominal demand - the
fundamental of the economy. In Chapter 2, we extend the SDI model to analyze
how central bank communication affects price setting. As public information
help firms to infer the current state of the economy and one another s prices, it
improves price synchronization. This effect makes inflation variance increase
with the precision of the public information. Social welfare is affected by the
fact that firms do not internalize how their prices change other firms pricing
decisions. In Chapter 3, we use a SDI model to analyze how price setting
changes when the interest rate is a policy instrument that not only partially
drives the fundamental dynamics, but also it is understood as a public signal
that informs the view of the monetary authority on the current state of the
economy. Under this framework, firms use interest rate to support their pricing
decisions, influencing inflation dynamics. We also obtain the optimal
parameters of the policy instrument (regarding three different efficiency
criteria), considering that the central bank knows that firms take information
from its actions.
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