What can survey forecasts tell us about information rigidities?

O Coibion, Y Gorodnichenko - Journal of Political Economy, 2012 - journals.uchicago.edu
A lot. We derive common and conflicting predictions from models in which agents face
information constraints and then assess their validity using surveys of consumers, firms …

DSGE models for monetary policy analysis

LJ Christiano, M Trabandt, K Walentin - Handbook of monetary economics, 2010 - Elsevier
Monetary DSGE models are widely used because they fit the data well and they can be used
to address important monetary policy questions. We provide a selective review of these …

Survey data and subjective beliefs in business cycle models

A Bhandari, J Borovička, P Ho - Review of Economic Studies, 2024 - academic.oup.com
This paper develops a theory of subjective beliefs that departs from rational expectations,
and shows that biases in household beliefs have quantitatively large effects on …

Learning in an estimated medium-scale DSGE model

S Slobodyan, R Wouters - Journal of Economic Dynamics and control, 2012 - Elsevier
We evaluate the empirical relevance of learning by private agents in an estimated medium-
scale DSGE model. We replace the standard rational expectations assumption in the Smets …

[HTML][HTML] Involuntary unemployment and the business cycle

LJ Christiano, M Trabandt, K Walentin - Review of Economic Dynamics, 2021 - Elsevier
Can a model with limited labor market insurance explain standard macro and labor market
data jointly? We construct a monetary model in which: i) the unemployed are worse off than …

Testing the sticky information Phillips curve

O Coibion - The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2010 - direct.mit.edu
I consider the empirical evidence for the sticky information model relative to the basic sticky
price model, conditional on historical measures of inflation forecasts. The estimated …

Time-varying effects of international nonferrous metal price shocks on China's industrial economy

M Zhong, R He, J Chen, J Huang - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its …, 2019 - Elsevier
This study aims to investigate the relationship between international nonferrous metal prices
and industrial economic variables. To this end, we propose a new extended time-varying …

Optimal monetary policy rules in an estimated sticky-information model

R Reis - American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2009 - aeaweb.org
This paper uses a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model with sticky
information as a laboratory to study monetary policy. It characterizes the model's predictions …

Examining the behaviour of inflation to supply and demand shocks using an MS-VAR model

D Koursaros, N Michail, C Savva - Economic Modelling, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper examines how inflation reacts depending on whether a supply (cost) or demand
(markup) shock occurs. Despite their importance, the behaviour of markups remains an …

Not going away? Microfoundations in the making of a new consensus in macroeconomics

PG Duarte - Microfoundations reconsidered, 2012 - elgaronline.com
Macroeconomics here, according to the economists discussed in this chapter, refers to “the
branch of economics concerned with fluctuations in the overall level of business activity, with …