Price Dispersion, Private Uncertainty, and Endogenous Nominal Rigidities

This paper shows that when agents learn from prices, large private uncertainty may result from a small amount of heterogeneity. As in a Phelps-Lucas island model, final producers look at the prices of their local inputs to infer aggregate conditions. However, market linkages between islands make the...

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Main Author: G. Gaballo
Format: Report
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Online Access:https://publications.banque-france.fr/sites/default/files/medias/documents/wp653.pdf