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The empirical effectiveness of economic policies that operate theoretically through similar channels differs substantially. We document this fact by comparing an easy-to-grasp expectations-based policy, unconventional fiscal policy, with a policy whose implications are harder to understand by...

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Consumer sentiment during the Covid-19 pandemic : the role of others' beliefs

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sentiment. Conducting consumer surveys with randomized control trials (RCTs) in Thailand and Vietnam during the COVID-19 … asymmetric across our sample countries, as it shows opposite appropriateness ratings of the governments’ reaction in Vietnam and … only in Vietnam, where the sign of the effect suggests that the treatments are viewed as positive news. Moreover, consumer …

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Developing country trade access after Brexit : the UK's plans for the generalized system of preferences

Winters, Leonard Alan; Di Ubaldo, Mattia; Mendez Parra, … - Center for Global Development <Washington, DC> - 2020

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The deepening China Brazil economic relationship

Whalley, John; Medianu, Dana - 2010

We document key features of the deepening economic relationship between Brazil and China. This is evident from sharply increased bilateral trade and foreign direct investment flows and also from enhanced cohesion of negotiating positions in international fora. Data presented show bilateral trade...

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Pitfalls in the use of ad valorem equivalent representations of the trade impacts of domestic policies

Whalley, John (contributor) - 2005

Numerical simulation exercises to analyze the impacts of potential changes in non-tariff policies commonly use ad valorem equivalent tariff treatment even though estimated impacts using explicit model representation and ad valorem equivalent treatments will differ. The difficulty for modellers...

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News and views on public finances : a survey experiment

Behringer, Jan; Dräger, Lena; Dullien, Sebastian; … - 2024

We use novel German survey data to investigate how perceptions and information about public finances influence attitudes towards public debt and fiscal rules. On average, people strongly underestimate the debt-to-GDP ratio, overestimate the interest-to-tax-revenue ratio and favor a tighter...

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Does policy communication during COVID work?

Coibion, Olivier; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Weber, Michael - 2020

Using a large-scale survey of U.S. households during the Covid-19 pandemic, we study how new information about fiscal and monetary policy responses to the crisis affects households' expectations. We provide random subsets of participants in the Nielsen Homescan panel with different combinations...

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The cost of the COVID-19 crisis : lockdowns,macroeconomic expectations, and consumer spending

Coibion, Olivier; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Weber, Michael - 2020

We study how the differential timing of local lockdowns due to COVID-19 causally affects households’ spending and macroeconomic expectations at the local level using several waves of a customized survey with more than 10,000 respondents. About 50% of survey participants report income and...

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The hidden heterogeneity of inflation and interest rate expectations : the role of preferences

Dräger, Lena; Lamla, Michael; Pfajfar, Damjan - 2022

Using a new consumer survey dataset, we show that macroeconomic preferences affect expectations and economic decisions through different channels. While household expectations are on average inversely related to preferences, households with the same inflation or interest rate expectations can...

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