Essays in learning uncertainty

Agents make decisions under uncertainty. They are not only uncertain about the true realizations of variables of interest, but also about their degree of uncertainty. Using survey of business uncertainty, I study firms’ subjective uncertainty and show that firms’ time varying subjective uncertainty...

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Autor: Ghifrani, Erfan
Tipo de recurso: tesis doctoral
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:CBUC, CESCA
Repositorio:TDR. Tesis Doctorales en Red
OAI Identifier:oai:www.tdx.cat:10803/676031
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10803/676031
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Learning uncertainty
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Sumario:Agents make decisions under uncertainty. They are not only uncertain about the true realizations of variables of interest, but also about their degree of uncertainty. Using survey of business uncertainty, I study firms’ subjective uncertainty and show that firms’ time varying subjective uncertainty can be driven by the learning channel. Next, I study implications of learning uncertainty for firms’ investment patterns. To do so, I first build a simple model of firms’ investment with learning uncertainty and show that learning uncertainty results in three main implications. Then, using Compustat data, I show that all three learning uncertainty’s implications for firms’ investment patterns are observable in the data. Since uncertainty about second moments affects agents’ decisions, so it also has important implications for optimal conduct of policies such as monetary policy. I build a model with uncertainty about productivity’s dispersion and study optimal response of monetary policy to the productivity dispersion shock.