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Firm-Specific Capital, Nominal Rigidities and the Business Cycle

David AltigJesper LindéLawrence J. Christiano

出版	SSRN, 2009
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=qdAAvgEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

This paper formulates and estimates a three-shock US business cycle model. The estimated model accounts for a substantial fraction of the cyclical variation in output and is consistent with the observed inertia in inflation. This is true even though firms in the model reoptimize prices on average once every 1.8 quarters. The key feature of our model underlying this result is that capital is firm-specific. If we adopt the standard assumption that capital is homogeneous and traded in economy-wide rental markets, we find that firms reoptimize their prices on average once every 9 quarters. We argue that the micro implications of the model strongly favor the firm-specific capital specification.