Working Paper

On the (de)stabilizing effects of news shocks

Authors

  • Winkler
  • R.
  • Wohltmann
  • H.-W.
Publication Date

This paper analyzes the impacts of news shocks on macroeconomic volatility. Whereas anticipation amplifies volatility in any purely forward-looking model, such as the baseline New Keynesian model, the results are ambiguous when including a backward-looking component. In addition to these theoretical findings, we use the estimated model of Smets and Wouters (2003) to provide numerical evidence that news shocks increase the volatility of key macroeconomic variables in the euro area when compared to unanticipated shocks.

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JEL Classification
E32

Key Words

  • Anticipated Shocks
  • Business cycles
  • Konjunkturzyklen
  • Volatility