Fundamental: Time-varying disagreement and monetary transmission

In macroeconomic models, economic agents are often assumed to perfectly observe the current state, but in reality they have to infer current conditions (nowcast). Because of information costs, this is not always easy. Information costs are not observable in the data but they can be proxied. A good proxy is disagreement on a near-term forecast because ...     Alert Mar 2, 2023, 8:37pm Fundamental: Time-varying disagreement and monetary transmission In macroeconomic models, economic agents are often assumed to perfectly observe the current state, but in reality they have to infer current conditions (nowcast). Because of information costs, this is not always easy. Information costs are not observable in the data but they can be proxied. A good proxy is disagreement on a near-term forecast because ... View Story Edit This Alert     You've opted-in to receive Alerts from Forex Factory. • Unsubscribe from this content • Enable Do-Not-Disturb to pause all Alerts • Contact FF for Alert support