On the empirical separability of news shocks and sunspots

In this note we discuss the possibility of empirically evaluating the relative importance of different drivers of forecast errors in linear rational expectations frameworks, using the predictions generated by the theory. By means of a few simple examples, we show that, when accounting for indetermin...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Marco M. Sorge
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Coimbra University Press 2010-12-01
Series:Notas Económicas
Online Access:https://impactum-journals.uc.pt/notaseconomicas/article/view/3447