Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/17950 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
Economics Discussion Papers No. 2007-27
Publisher: 
Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW), Kiel
Abstract: 
We study the Beaudry and Portier (2006)-hypothesis of delayed-technology diffusion and newsdriven business cycles. For German data on TFP and stock prices we find qualitatively similar empirical evidence. Quantitatively, however, an impulse response analysis suggests that a substantial part of the total TFP response is immediate rather than delayed. We relate this to disembodied technological change and noisy data on TFP. Nevertheless, we confirm the technology interpretation of structural shocks by showing that they are Granger-causal for data on patents granted by the German patent agency.
Subjects: 
news
business cycles
TFP
structural VAR
JEL: 
E32
Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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