Price dynamics, financial fragility and aggregate volatility

B-Tier
Journal: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control
Year: 2015
Volume: 51
Issue: C
Pages: 257-277

Score contribution per author:

0.503 = (α=2.01 / 4 authors) × 1.0x B-tier

α: calibrated so average coauthorship-adjusted count equals average raw count

Abstract

Within a general equilibrium framework à la (Long and Plosser, 1983), we investigate the dynamics emerging from the interactions of households and firms that are adaptive price setters and financially constrained. Adaptive price-setting behavior induces micro-founded out-of-equilibrium dynamics along which agents become heterogeneous in terms of prices and wealth. The stringency of the financial constraints determines the regime into which the model settles: either an equilibrium one or a disequilibrium one conductive to financial fragility and aggregate volatility. In this setting, we investigate how the structure of the production network affects the emergence of aggregate volatility from micro-level price and financial shocks, hence providing a dynamical counterpart to recent results of Acemoglu et al. (2012).

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:eee:dyncon:v:51:y:2015:i:c:p:257-277
Journal Field
Macro
Author Count
4
Added to Database
2026-01-25