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We provide, for the first time, comparative evidence of the impact of various types of extreme events – natural disasters, terrorism, and violent conflicts – on the perceptions of entrepreneurs concerning some key entrepreneurial issues – such as fear of failure in starting a business...
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gold standard during the 1930s. We do this by separating expectations of taxation and of devaluation that are implicitly … expectations of a capital levy or other taxation devices; third that hyperinflation was not expected, even at the moment of maximum … low as the spot value. For the 1930s, we show that expectations of a depreciation of the franc explain the rise in …
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We propose a model that generates an economic expansion in response to good news about future total factor productivity (TFP) or investment-specific technical change. The model has three key elements: variable capital utilization, adjustment costs to investment, and preferences that exhibit a...
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Both empirical evidence and theoretical discussion have long emphasized the impact of `news' on exchange rates. In most exchange rate models, the exchange rate acts as an asset price, and as such responds to news about future returns on assets. But the exchange rate also plays a role in...
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We estimate the effect of pension reforms on households’ expectations of retirement outcomes and private wealth … population, elicits these expectations during a period of intense pension reforms between 1989 and 2002. These reforms had … of social security arrangements on expectations of retirement outcomes and household saving decisions. Our main findings …
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, expectations of higher future productivity raise the demand for new vintages of capital relative to installed capital. Capital …
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-looking expectations there is typically a second inefficiency from discretionary policymaking, besides the inflationary bias. The Paper …
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and employment are below their full employment levels. Three alternative expectations hypotheses are used - 'adaptive …', 'monetarist' and 'pure rational' - all of which ensure no expectations errors in the steady state. All three lead to different … steady states, with contrasting output responses to the rate of monetary growth, despite constraining expectations to be …
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influenced by political as well as economic considerations. This paper focuses on the role of expectations in distinguishing …
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We consider the impact of anticipated policy changes when agents form expectations using adaptive learning rather than … rational expectations. To model this we assume that agents combine limited structural knowledge with a standard adaptive …-up there are important deviations from both rational expectations and purely adaptive learning. Our approach could be applied …
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