New Shocks and Asset Price Volatility in General Equilibrium /

We study equity price volatility in general equilibrium with news shocks about future productivity and monetary policy. As West (1988) shows, in a partial equilibrium present discounted value model, news about the future cash flow reduces asset price volatility. We show that introducing news shocks...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rebucci, Alessandro
Other Authors: Cova, Pietro, Matsumoto, Akito, Pisani, Massimiliano
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2011.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2011/110
Online Access:Full text available on IMF