, with a contractionary shock leading to a downward revision of expectations. Second, we show that firms’ response depends on … the size and the sign of the shock, with only large and contractionary shocks having a significant negative effect on … expectations. Third, we observe that the different components of central bank communication (i.e. the pure monetary policy shock …

decline in purchasing power and real national income in the optimal allocation. Through the various expectation channels …

economic growth to a fiscal shock are mostly positive in both financial stress regimes; (iii) financial stress has a negative … shock is mainly associated with different behaviour across regimes; (v) the size of the fiscal multipliers is higher than …