A Theory of Demand Shocks

This paper presents a model of business cycles driven by shocks to consumer expectations regarding aggregate productivity. Agents are hit by heterogeneous productivity shocks, they observe their own productivity and a noisy public signal regarding aggregate productivity. The public signal gives rise...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lorenzoni, Guido
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: American Economic Association 2010
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/51815