what is price stickiness 
price stickiness is one of the primary factors that economists cite to argue that money is not neutral the term refers to situations in which nominal prices are resistant to change even when shifts in the economy suggest that doing so would be optimal the bottom linethe money neutrality theory posits that changes in money supply do not affect the overall economy rather the impact of such changes is limited to the realm of prices for goods and services and wages for labor not productivity or the fundamental nature of the economy some economists agree that neutrality plays out over the long run but not on shorter timescales while others reject the theory altogether 