ECON 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Nominal Rigidity, Foreclosure, Market Failure

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1 Dec 2016
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Due to labor contracts, social norms: firms and workers set the nominal wage in advance based on pe, the price level they expect to prevail. If p > pe, revenue is higher, but labor cost is not. Production is more profitable, so firms increase output and employment: hence, higher p causes higher y, so the sras curve slopes upward, the sticky-price theory, imperfection: many prices are sticky in the short run. Due to menu costs, the cost of adjusting prices. Examples: cost of printing new menus, the time required to change price tags: firms set sticky prices in advance based on pe, suppose the fed increases the money supply unexpectedly. In the short run, firms without menu costs can raise their prices immediately: firms with menu costs wait to raise prices. In all 3 theories, y deviates from yn when p deviates from pe. Y = yn + a(p - pe)

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