News, Noise, and Fluctuations: An Empirical Exploration

Olivier Jean Blanchard · Jean-Paul L’Huillier · Guido Lorenzoni

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We explore empirically models of aggregate fluctuations in which consumers form anticipations about the future based on noisy sources of information and these anticipations affect output in the short run. Our objective is to separate fluctuations due to changes in fundamentals (news) from those due to temporary errors in agents' estimates (noise). We show that structural VARs cannot be used to identify news and noise shocks, but identification is possible via a method of moments or maximum likelihood. Next, we estimate our model on US data. Our results suggest that noise shocks explain a sizable fraction of short-run consumption fluctuations. (JEL D84, E13, E21, E32)

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