Series: Working Papers. 1615.
Author: Alessandro Galesi and Omar Rachedi.
Published in: Journal of the European Economic Association Volume 17, Issue 4, August 2019, Pages 1261-1293
como "Services Deepening and the Transmission of Monetary Policy".
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Abstract
Advanced economies are undergoing a structural transformation from manufacturing to services. We document that structural change comes with a process of services deepening: over time, both services and manufacturing become more intensive in service inputs. We argue that structural transformation and services deepening affect the transmission of monetary policy by increasing the relative importance of services, which have stickier prices than manufacturing. We study the implications of the U.S. sectoral reallocation with a New Keynesian model with two sectors connected by an input-output matrix, which varies endogenously over time. The rise of services dampens the responses of aggregate and sectoral inflation rates to a monetary policy shock. The changes in the responses of sectoral inflation rates are entirely driven by services deepening.