On staggered prices and optimal inflation

  1. Asier Aguilera-Bravo 1
  2. Miguel Casares 1
  1. 1 Universidad Pública de Navarra
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    Universidad Pública de Navarra

    Pamplona, España

    ROR https://ror.org/02z0cah89

Revista:
Documentos de Trabajo ( Universidad Pública de Navarra. Departamento de Economía )

Any de publicació: 2019

Número: 2

Tipus: Document de treball

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Resum

This paper computes the steady-state optimal rate of inflation assuming two different sticky-price specifications, Calvo (1983) and Taylor (1980), in a model with monopolistic competition. The optimal rate of inflation in steady state is always positive. This result is robust to changes in the degree of price stickiness. In both cases of staggered prices, the optimal rate of inflation is approximately equal to the ratio between the rate of discount and the Dixit-Stiglitz elasticity.

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