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Imperfect Macroeconomic Expectations: Evidence and Theory / George-Marios Angeletos, Zhen Huo, Karthik A. Sastry.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Angeletos, George-Marios.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w27308.
- NBER working paper series no. w27308
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2020.
- Summary:
- We document a new fact about expectations: in response to the main shocks driving the business cycle, expectations underreact initially but overshoot later on. We show how previous, seemingly conflicting, evidence can be understood as different facets of this fact. We finally explain what the cumulated evidence means for macroeconomic theory. There is little support for theories emphasizing underextrapolation or two close cousins of it, cognitive discounting and level-K thinking. Instead, the evidence favors the combination of dispersed, noisy information and over-extrapolation.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- June 2020.
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