FRICTIONAL COORDINATION

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Angeletos, George-Marios
• 署名单位: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC ASSOCIATION
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1542-4766
• DOI: 10.1093/jeea/jvy019
• 发表日期: 2018
• 页码: 563-603
• 关键词: menu-cost; aggregate demand; business-cycle; inflation-expectations; robust predictions; monetary-policy; phillips-curve; sticky prices; social value; INFORMATION

摘要

The notion that business cycles are driven by fluctuations in aggregate demand is subtle. I first review some of the conceptual and empirical challenges faced when trying to accommodate this notion in micro-founded, general-equilibrium models. I next review my own research, which sheds new light on the observed business cycles by accommodating frictional coordination in the form of higher-order uncertainty. This makes room for forces akin to animal spirits even when the equilibrium is unique. It allows demand shocks to generate realistic business cycles even when nominal rigidity is absent or undone by appropriate monetary policy. It modifies the general-equilibrium predictions of workhorse macroeconomic models in manners that seem both conceptually appealing and empirically relevant. And it offers new guidance to policy.