Information rigidities and the news-adjusted output gap

A vector-autoregressive model of actual output and expected output obtained from surveys is used to test for information rigidities and to provide a characterisation of output dynamics that accommodates these information structures. News on actual and expected outputs is decomposed to identify innov...

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Main Authors: Garratt, Anthony, Lee, Kevin, Shields, Kalvinder
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Published: Elsevier 2016
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description A vector-autoregressive model of actual output and expected output obtained from surveys is used to test for information rigidities and to provide a characterisation of output dynamics that accommodates these information structures. News on actual and expected outputs is decomposed to identify innovations understood to have short-lived effects and these are used with the model to derive a ‘news-adjusted output gap׳ measure. The approach is applied to US data over 1970q1–2014q2 and the new gap measure is shown to provide a good leading indicator of inflation.
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spelling nottingham-347892020-05-04T20:01:06Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/34789/ Information rigidities and the news-adjusted output gap Garratt, Anthony Lee, Kevin Shields, Kalvinder A vector-autoregressive model of actual output and expected output obtained from surveys is used to test for information rigidities and to provide a characterisation of output dynamics that accommodates these information structures. News on actual and expected outputs is decomposed to identify innovations understood to have short-lived effects and these are used with the model to derive a ‘news-adjusted output gap׳ measure. The approach is applied to US data over 1970q1–2014q2 and the new gap measure is shown to provide a good leading indicator of inflation. Elsevier 2016-09 Article PeerReviewed Garratt, Anthony, Lee, Kevin and Shields, Kalvinder (2016) Information rigidities and the news-adjusted output gap. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 70 . pp. 1-17. ISSN 01651889 Information rigidities; Survey-based expectations; Output gap http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165188916301038 doi:10.1016/j.jedc.2016.06.004 doi:10.1016/j.jedc.2016.06.004
spellingShingle Information rigidities; Survey-based expectations; Output gap
Garratt, Anthony
Lee, Kevin
Shields, Kalvinder
Information rigidities and the news-adjusted output gap
title Information rigidities and the news-adjusted output gap
title_full Information rigidities and the news-adjusted output gap
title_fullStr Information rigidities and the news-adjusted output gap
title_full_unstemmed Information rigidities and the news-adjusted output gap
title_short Information rigidities and the news-adjusted output gap
title_sort information rigidities and the news-adjusted output gap
topic Information rigidities; Survey-based expectations; Output gap
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