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Endogenous Growth, Monetary Shocks and Nominal Rigidities
Annicchiarico, Barbara; Pelloni, Alessandra; Rossi, Lorenza - 2010
: (i) monetary volatility negatively affects long-run growth; (ii) the relation between nominal volatility and growth … increases the negative effect of nominal volatility on mean growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010343890
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Policy risk and the business cycle
Born, Benjamin; Pfeifer, Johannes - 2013 - This version: July 11, 2013, First Version: December 2010
The argument that policy risk, i.e., uncertainty about monetary and fiscal policy, has been holding back the economic recovery in the U.S. during the Great Recession has a large popular appeal. We analyze the role of policy risk in explaining business cycle fluctuations by using an estimated New...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009772961
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The Mistake of 1937 : A General Equilibrium Analysis
Eggertsson, Gauti B. - 2017
This paper studies a dynamic general equilibrium model with sticky prices and rational expectations in an environment of low interest rates and deflationary pressures. We show that small changes in the public's beliefs about the future inflation target of the government can lead to large swings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012746836
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Policy risk and the business cycle
Born, Benjamin; Peifer, Johannes - 2011 - This version: June 1, 2011
The argument that policy risk, i.e. uncertainty about monetary and fiscal policy, has been holding back the economic recovery in the U.S. during the Great Recession has a large popular appeal. We analyze the role of policy risk in explaining business cycle fluctuations by using an estimated New...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009126071
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Business cycles when consumers learn by shopping
Gutiérrez-Daza, Ángelo - 2024
function of the monetary policy stance. As a result, a more hawkish monetary policy reduces the volatility and persistence of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015069687
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Learning as a Rational Foundation for Macroeconomics and Finance
Evans, George W.; Honkapohja, Seppo - 2011
Expectations play a central role in modern macroeconomics. The econometric learning approach, in line with the cognitive consistency principle, models agents as forming expectations by estimating and updating subjective forecasting models in real time. This approach provides a stability test for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014183715
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Volatility effects of news shocks in (B)RE models with optimal monetary policy
Offick, Sven; Wohltmann, Hans-Werner - 2015
This paper studies the volatility implications of anticipated cost-push shocks (i.e. news shocks) in a New Keynesian …), anticipated cost-push shocks lead to a higher (lower) volatility in the output gap and in the central bank’s loss than an … unanticipated shock of the same size. The inversion of the volatility effects of news shocks between rational and boundedly rational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011390502
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Uncertainty shocks, banking frictions, and economic activity
Bonciani, Dario; Roye, Björn van - 2013
In this paper we investigate the effects of uncertainty shocks on economic activity using a Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium (DSGE) model with heterogenous agents and a stylized banking sector. We show that frictions in credit supply amplify the effects of uncertainty shocks on economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009761866
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Lumpy Investment, Fluctuations in Volatility, and Monetary Policy
Fang, Min - 2020
Is monetary policy less effective at stimulating investment during periods of elevated volatility (when all firms … elevated volatility leads to a decrease in extensive margin investment incentive so that nominal stimulus generates less … aggregate investment. To do this, I first document empirically that high volatility weakens firms' investment responses to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840814
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Financial frictions : micro vs macro volatility
Lee, Seungcheol; Luetticke, Ralph; Ravn, Morten O. - 2021
We introduce frictional financial intermediation into a HANK model. Households are subject to idiosyncratic and aggregate risk and smooth consumption through savings and consumer loans intermediated by banks. The banking friction introduces an endogenous countercyclical spread between the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012705511