Monetary non-neutrality in a multisector economy: The role of risk-sharing
证明异质性工人之间的风险分担程度是多部门粘性价格模型中货币非中性的关键决定因素,有限的风险分担导致企业定价策略的互补性,从而引起价格水平对货币冲击的缓慢调整和产出缺口的显著波动。
We show that the degree of risk-sharing among heterogeneous workers is a key determinant of monetary non-neutrality in a multisector sticky-price model. In this framework, workers are employed across different sectors, earning distinct wages. The limited ability of workers to fully insure against labor income risks results in strategic complementarity in firms' price-setting decisions with respect to aggregate shocks and strategic substitutability with respect to idiosyncratic shocks. These pricing interactions lead to sluggish adjustments of the price level in response to monetary and other aggregate shocks, causing significant fluctuations in the output gap while maintaining large responses of individual prices to idiosyncratic shocks. We illustrate these results across three stylized asset market scenarios: complete markets, non-contingent bond-only markets, and financial autarky .