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Firm-Specific Capital and the New Keynesian Phillips Curve ∗
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Woodford, Michael |
| Copyright Year | 2005 |
| Abstract | A relation between inflation and the path of average marginal cost (often measured by unit labor cost) implied by the Calvo (1983) model of staggered pricing—sometimes referred to as the “New Keynesian” Phillips curve—has been the subject of extensive econometric estimation and testing. Standard theoretical justifications of this form of aggregate-supply relation, however, either assume (1) the existence of a competitive rental market for capital services, so that the shadow cost of capital services is equated across firms and sectors at all points in time, despite the fact that prices are set at different times, or (2) that the capital stock of each firm is constant, or at any rate exogenously given, and so independent of the firm’s pricing decision. But neither assumption is realistic. The present paper examines the extent to which existing empirical specifications and interpretations of parameter estimates are compromised by reliance on either of these assumptions. The paper derives an aggregate-supply relation for a model with monopolistic competition and Calvo pricing in which capital is firm specific and endogenous, and investment is subject to convex adjustment costs. The aggregate-supply relation is shown to again take the standard New Keynesian form, but with an elasticity of inflation with respect to real marginal cost that is a different function of underlying parameters than in the simpler cases studied earlier. Thus the relations estimated in the empirical literature remain correctly specified under the assumptions proposed here, but the interpretation of the estimated elasticity is different; in particular, the implications of the estimated Phillips-curve slope for the frequency of price |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.columbia.edu/cu/economics/discpapr/DP0405-17.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.ijcb.org/journal/ijcb05q3a1.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/825/1/MPRA_paper_825.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://academiccommons.columbia.edu/doi/10.7916/D8T72VKM/download |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.columbia.edu/~mw2230/Capital-NKPC.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Aggregate data Elasticity (data store) Estimated Interpretation Process Marginal model Pin grid array Population Parameter Specification |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
