Measuring macroeconomic disagreement – A mixed frequency approach

Jeffrey Sheen; Ben Zhe Wang

doi:10.1016/j.jebo.2021.07.011

Measuring macroeconomic disagreement – A mixed frequency approach

Jeffrey Sheen, Ben Zhe Wang^*

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Abstract

We propose a new measure of macroeconomic disagreement, using dispersions of forecasts of a wide range of financial, activity and inflation variables from both household and professional surveys at various frequencies. With a mixed-frequency state-space model, we construct macroeconomic disagreement estimates of the one-year ahead expected state of the economy. Impulse responses show disagreement shocks lead to a contraction in economic activity.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	547-566
Number of pages	20
Journal	Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
Volume	189
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2021.07.011
Publication status	Published - Sept 2021

Keywords

Macroeconomic disagreement
Economic uncertainty
Survey data
Mixed frequency
State-space model

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