Changes in the effects of monetary policy on disaggregate price dynamics

Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 543-560

  Baumeister, Christiane ^a   Liu, Philip ^b   Mumtaz, Haroon ^c  

^a BANK OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board   (Canada)

^c BANK OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Disaggregate prices; Heterogeneous pricing decisions; Monetary transmission; Structural FAVAR; Time variation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872860122     PISSN: 01651889     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jedc.2012.09.009     Document Type: Article

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