Fujiwara, Ippei; Hirose, Yasuo; Shintani, Mototsugu - Vanderbilt University Department of Economics - 2009
We examine whether the news shocks, as explored in Beaudry and Portier(2004), can be a major source of aggregate … Evans (2005), and Smets and Wouters (2003, 2007) by allowing news shocks on the total factor productivity, and estimate the … model using Bayesian methods. Estimation results on the U.S. and Japanese economies suggest that (1) news shocks play a …