Here we complicate the lean model of section \ref{sec:NeutStick} above, by
adding price stickiness and investment. There are adjustment costs for capital,
so that there is a variable price of investment goods. In a model where
transactions prices are not true shadow prices, there is some ambiguity as
to how to define the transactions costs that determine the demand for money. It
seems most natural to use a flow of actual contract payments to measure
transactions, not a notional value of production or purchases priced at
shadow prices. This eliminates the neat conclusion that contract prices
have no effect on the real equilibrium.
Even without the complication of contract prices, a classical model with
transactions costs implies some real effects of monetary policy. High
inflation and nominal interest rates reduces equilibrium real balances and
raises transactions costs. When the model includes an investment
decision, it is possible in principle for investment decisions to be
noticeably affected by variations in monetary policy even though
transactions costs are not in equilibrium a large fraction of output
\cite{RebeloRbar}.
While it is therefore not a foregone conclusion that real effects of monetary policy
will be small, in the model presented here, with realistic parameter
values, the real effects of monetary policy do indeed emerge as small.
As with all the models we are considering, there is a representative
consumer and a representative firm. Their objectives and constraints are
described below.
Consumer:
$$
\max_{C, L, V, M, B_C, Y_C, and Y_L} \int_0^\infty {e^{-\beta t}{{C_t^{\mu _0}
\left( {1-L} \right)^{\mu _1}} \over {\mu _0+\mu _1}}dt}
$$
subject to
$$
\begin{align}
\lambda&\!: & Y_C+\dot B_C+\dot M+\tau &\le Y_L+\pi +rB_C \label{eq:CSClambda}\\
\psi_V&\!: & V&\ge {{Y_C} \over M} \label{eq:CSCpsiV} \\
\psi_C&\! & \Cstar &\ge C\cdot \left( {1+\gamma V} \right) \label{eq:CSCpsiC}\\
\nu_{YC}&\!: & \dot{Y}_C-p\dot{\Cstar} & \geq -\eta_C\cdot(Y_C-p\Cstar)
\label{eq:CSCnuYC}\\
\nu_{YL}&\!: & \dot Y_L-w\dot L&\le -\eta _L\cdot \left( {Y_L-wL} \right)
\label{eq:CSCnuYL}\\
&& B_C\ge0,&\: M\ge0 \:.
\end{align}
$$