@techreport{NBERw10016, title = "On the Sluggish Response of Prices to Money in an Inventory-Theoretic Model of Money Demand", author = "Fernando Alvarez and Andrew Atkeson and Chris Edmond", institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research", type = "Working Paper", series = "Working Paper Series", number = "10016", year = "2003", month = "October", URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w10016", abstract = {We exposit the link between money, velocity and prices in an inventory-theoretic model of the demand for money and explore the extent to which such a model can account for the short-run volatility of velocity, the negative correlation of velocity and the ratio of money to consumption, and the resulting stickiness' of the aggregate price level relative to a benchmark model with constant velocity. We find that an inventory-theoretic model of the demand for money is a natural framework for understanding these aspects of the dynamics of money, velocity and prices in the short run.}, }