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Title: Monetary Policy, Price Setting, and Credit Constraints

Author(s): Almut Balleer and Peter Zorn

Publication Date: December 2019

Keyword(s): credit constraints, extensive margin, intensive margin, local projections, Menu cost, monetary policy and Price Setting

Programme Area(s): Monetary Economics and Fluctuations

Abstract: We estimate the effects of monetary policy on price-setting behavior in administrative micro data underlying the German producer price index. We find a strong degree of monetary non-neutrality. After expansionary monetary policy, the mass of additional price adjustments is economically small and the average absolute size across all price changes falls. The aggregate price level hardly adjusts, and monetary policy has real effects. These estimates rule out quantitative structural models that generate small and transient effects of monetary policy through selection on large price adjustments. We provide evidence that monetary policy propagates primarily through production units with weak financial positions.

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Balleer, A and Zorn, P. 2019. 'Monetary Policy, Price Setting, and Credit Constraints'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=14163