Learning, Confidence, and Business Cycles
Key Insights
- We build a tractable heterogeneous-firm business cycle model where firms face Knightian uncertainty about their profitability and learn it through production.
- The cross-sectional mean of firm-level uncertainty is high in recessions because firms invest and hire less.
- The higher uncertainty reduces a.
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@misc{ acaciamarkets-research-learning-confidence-and-business-cycles,
title = { Learning, Confidence, and Business Cycles },
author = { NBER },
year = { 2026 },
url = { https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2887241 },
note = {Summarized and classified by AcaciaFund}
}
TY - GEN TI - Learning, Confidence, and Business Cycles AU - NBER PY - 2026 UR - https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2887241 ER -
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Overview
We build a tractable heterogeneous-firm business cycle model where firms face Knightian uncertainty about their profitability and learn it through production. The cross-sectional mean of firm-level uncertainty is high in recessions because firms invest and hire less. The higher uncertainty reduces agents' confidence and further discourages economic activity.
We characterize this feedback mechanism in linear, workhorse macroeconomic models and find that it endogenously generates empirically
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