What's News in Business Cycles

Martín Uribe () and Schmitt-Grohé, Stephanie
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Stephanie Schmitt-Grohe

No 8984, CEPR Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Policy Research

Abstract: In the context of a dynamic, stochastic, general equilibrium model, we perform classical maximum-likelihood and Bayesian estimations of the contribution of anticipated shocks to business cycles in the postwar United States. Our identification approach relies on the fact that forward-looking agents react to anticipated changes in exogenous fundamentals before such changes materialize. It further allows us to distinguish changes in fundamentals by their anticipation horizon. We find that anticipated shocks account for about half of predicted aggregate fluctuations in output, consumption, investment, and employment.

Keywords: Anticipated shocks; Bayesian estimation.; Sources of aggregate fluctuations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C11 C51 E13 E32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-05
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