Sectoral media focus and aggregate fluctuations

R Chahrour, K Nimark, S Pitschner - American Economic Review, 2021 - aeaweb.org
We formalize the editorial role of news media in a multisector economy and show that media
can be an independent source of business cycle fluctuations, even when they report …

Rational inattention to news: The perils of forward guidance

G Gaballo - American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2016 - aeaweb.org
This paper studies the social value of information about the future. In a stylized OLG model,
agents need to forecast the future price level, they observe the current price and perceive …

[BOOK][B] Endogenous uncertainty and credit crunches

L Straub, R Ulbricht - 2017 - aeaweb.org
We develop a theory of endogenous uncertainty where the ability of investors to learn about
firm-level fundamentals declines during financial crises. At the same time, higher uncertainty …

Noisy Global Value Chains

We study international propagation of both fundamental and non-fundamental shocks in a
global production network model with information frictions. Producers in a sector do not …

Dispersed Information, Nominal Rigidities and Monetary Business Cycles: A Hayekian Perspective

C Hellwig, V Venkateswaran - 2024 - nber.org
We study the propagation of nominal shocks in a dispersed information economy where
firms learn from and respond to information generated by their activities in product and factor …

[PDF][PDF] Dispersed information, sticky prices and monetary business cycles: A hayekian perspective

C Hellwig, V Venkateswaran - New York University, Mimeo, 2014 - stern.nyu.edu
We study the propagation of nominal shocks in a dispersed information economy where
firms learn from and respond to information generated by their activities in product and factor …

[PDF][PDF] Incomplete Information and Investment Inaction

J Adams, C Chen, M Fang, T Hattori, E Rojas - 2024 - aeaweb.org
How do investment friction and information friction interact? We study this question in a
stylized continuous time model of heterogeneous firms facing incomplete information and …

Observing and sha** the market: the dilemma of central banks

R Baeriswyl, C Cornand… - Journal of Money, Credit …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
While the central bank observes market activity to assess economic fundamentals, it shapes
the market outcome through the conduct of monetary policy. A dilemma arises from this dual …

[PDF][PDF] Incomplete Information in Production Networks

G Nikolakoudis - 2024 - nikolakoudis.com
I develop a model of production networks in which firms choose inputs under incomplete
information about sectoral productivity and aggregate demand disturbances. As in the …

Information, Production Networks and Optimal Taxation

S Chen - Production Networks and Optimal Taxation (November …, 2024 - papers.ssrn.com
This paper studies optimal taxation in an economy with information frictions and a
production network across industries. I show that when all industries share the same …