News about Aggregate Demand and the Business Cycle

Jang-Ting Guo, Anca-Ioana Sirbu and Mark Weder
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Anca-Ioana Sirbu: Department of Economics, West Virginia University

No 12-02, Working Papers from Department of Economics, West Virginia University

Abstract: We show that an otherwise standard one-sector real business cycle model with variable capital utilization and mild increasing returns-to-scale is able to generate qualitatively as well as quantitatively realistic aggregate fluctuations driven by news shocks to future consumption demand. In sharp contrast to many studies in the existing expectations-driven business cycle literature, our results do not rely on non-separable preferences or investment adjustment costs.

Keywords: News Shocks; Aggregate Demand; Business Cycles (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 19 pages
Date: 2012-09
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