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- Title
Quantifying Confidence.
- Authors
Angeletos, George‐Marios; Collard, Fabrice; Dellas, Harris
- Abstract
We develop a tractable method for augmenting macroeconomic models with autonomous variation in higher‐order beliefs. We use this to accommodate a certain type of waves of optimism and pessimism that can be interpreted as the product of frictional coordination and, unlike the one featured in the news literature, regards the short‐term economic outlook rather than the medium‐ to long‐run prospects. We show that this enrichment provides a parsimonious explanation of salient features of the data; it accounts for a significant fraction of the business‐cycle volatility in estimated models that allow for various competing structural shocks; and it captures a type of fluctuations that have a Keynesian flavor but do not rely on nominal rigidities.
- Subjects
MACROECONOMIC models; MACROECONOMICS; ECONOMIC forecasting; PARSIMONIOUS models; KEYNESIAN economics
- Publication
Econometrica, 2018, Vol 86, Issue 5, p1689
- ISSN
0012-9682
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3982/ECTA13079