Heterogeneous Information and the Theory of the Business Cycle
假设货币供给和价格水平可观测,但资本生产率信息是异质的,由此构建一个均衡模型,说明货币需求冲击下名义利率作为真实利率的噪声信号如何导致产出波动放大。
The inability to observe the money supply and price level has been an essential ingredient of informational based equilibrium models of cycles. Here we assume these data are available but show that heterogeneous information about the productivity of capital can lead to a monetary theory of fluctuations. In equilibrium, each agent's investment depends on the difference between his own productivity and the perceived real rate. In the presence of money demand shocks, the nominal rate is noisy signal of the real rate. This leads to greater fluctuations in output than if all agents had the same information.