Information rigidity and the expectations formation process :: a simple framework and new facts /

We propose a new approach to test the full-information rational expectations hypothesis which can identify whether rejections of the null arise from information rigidities. This approach quantifies the economic significance of departures from the null and the underlying degree of information rigidit...

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1. Verfasser: Coibion, Olivier
Körperschaft: International Monetary Fund. Research Department
Weitere Verfasser: Gorodnichenko, Yuriy
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: [Washington, D.C.] : International Monetary Fund, ©2012.
Schriftenreihe:IMF working paper ; WP/12/296.
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Zusammenfassung:We propose a new approach to test the full-information rational expectations hypothesis which can identify whether rejections of the null arise from information rigidities. This approach quantifies the economic significance of departures from the null and the underlying degree of information rigidity. Applying this approach to U.S. and international data of professional forecasters and other agents yields pervasive evidence consistent with the presence of information rigidities. These results therefore provide a set of stylized facts which can be used to calibrate imperfect information models. Finally, we document evidence of state-dependence in the expectations formation process.
Beschreibung:Title from PDF title page (IMF Web site, viewed Dec. 21, 2012).
"Research Department."
"December 2012."
Beschreibung:1 online resource (55 pages).
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9781475516753
1475516754
1475533861
9781475533866