Business cycle fluctuations and monetary policy under heterogeneous information: A literature review
Summary
Modelling business cycle fluctuations and the nonneutrality of money is an ongoing challenge for macroeconomists. While the imperfect-information hypothesis developed by Phelps and Lucas in the 1970s had been abandoned in favour of the sticky-price hypothesis, a recent trend in the literature has put the imperfect-information hypothesis back on the agenda to explain business fluctuations and monetary nonneutrality. The success of this revival lies in the introduction of strategic uncertainty into a framework of heterogeneous information. The present paper presents this macroeconomic framework and provides a brief overview of recent advances in the literature.
- Issue:
- 16
- Pages:
- 30
- JEL classification:
- C72, D83, E12, E32, E52
- Keywords:
- Heterogeneous information, Strategic complementarities, Higher-order beliefs, Coordination, Beauty-contest, Monetary nonneutrality, Business cycle, Communication policy, Monetary policy
- Year:
- 2025