2012•Theoretical Economics LettersOpen access

Note on Nominal Rigidities and News-Driven Business Cycles

Kengo Nutahara

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A news-driven business cycle is a positive comovement of consumption, output, labor, and investment from the news about the future. We show that nominal rigidities, especially sticky prices, can cause it in a medium-scale DSGE economy through countercyclical movements of the price-markup. We also find that sticky wages cannot generate it, but they amplify the effects of news shocks.

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Key concepts: Dynamic stochastic general equilibrium, Business cycle, Economics, Monetary economics, Markup language, Consumption (sociology), Investment (military), Keynesian economics