Near-rational exuberance

James Bullard, George Evans and Seppo Honkapohja

No 2004-025, Working Papers from Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Abstract: We study how the use of judgement or \"add-factors\" in macroeconomic forecasting may disturb the set of equilibrium outcomes when agents learn using recursive methods. We isolate conditions under which new phenomena, which we call exuberance equilibria, can exist in standard macroeconomic environments. Examples include a simple asset pricing model and the New Keynesian monetary policy framework. Inclusion of judgement in forecasts can lead to self-fulfilling fluctuations, but without the requirement that the underlying rational expectations equilibrium is locally indeterminate. We suggest ways in which policymakers might avoid unintended outcomes by adjusting policy to minimize the risk of exuberance equilibria.

Keywords: Monetary policy; Macroeconomics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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