Does Money Illusion Matter?
Institute for Empirical Research in Economics Working Paper No. 12
63 Pages Posted: 5 Feb 2000 Last revised: 13 Oct 2012
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Does Money Illusion Matter?
Does Money Illusion Matter?
Date Written: February 1, 1998
Abstract
Money illusion means that people behave differently when the same objective situation is represented in nominal terms rather than in real terms. This paper shows that seemingly innocuous differences in payoff representation cause pronounced differences in nominal price inertia indicating the behavioral importance of money illusion. In particular, if the payoff information is presented to subjects in nominal terms, price expectations and actual price choices after a fully anticipated negative nominal shock are much stickier than when payoff information is presented in real terms. In addition we show that money illusion causes asymmetric effects of negative and positive nominal shocks. While nominal inertia is quite substantial and long-lasting after a negative shock, it is rather small after a positive shock.
Keywords: money illusion, nominal inertia, sticky prices, non-neutrality of money
JEL Classification: C92, E32, E52
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