Firm-specific capital, inflation persistence and the sources of business cycles

B-Tier
Journal: European Economic Review
Year: 2015
Volume: 74
Issue: C
Pages: 229-243

Score contribution per author:

2.011 = (α=2.01 / 1 authors) × 1.0x B-tier

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Abstract

This paper estimates a firm-specific capital DSGE model. Firm-specific capital improves the fit of DSGE models to the data (as shown by a large increase in the value of the log marginal likelihood). This results from a lower implied estimate of the NKPC slope for a given degree of price stickiness. Firm-specific capital leads to a better fit to the volatilities of macro variables and a greater persistence of inflation. It is also shown that firm-specific capital reduces the dependence of New Keynesian models on price markup shocks and that it increases the persistence of output to monetary shocks.

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:eee:eecrev:v:74:y:2015:i:c:p:229-243
Journal Field
General
Author Count
1
Added to Database
2026-01-25