The Macroeconomic Effects of False Announcements

Seonghwan Oh and Michael Waldman

The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1990, vol. 105, issue 4, 1017-1034

Abstract: Suppose that the government were to announce the economy will be booming in six months, and this announcement is based on false data. What effect would such an announcement have on future aggregate activity? This paper employs revisions of the series of leading economic indicators to test the hypothesis that such an announcement would have a positive effect on future activity. We find that the evidence is generally consistent with the hypothesis and that for the time period 1976–1988 the expectational shocks measured by these revisions explain over 20 percent of the fluctuation in the quarterly growth rate of industrial production.

Date: 1990
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