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Using life-history survey data from eleven European countries, we investigate whether childhood conditions, such as socioeconomic status, cognitive abilities and health problems influence portfolio choice and risk attitudes later in life. After controlling for the corresponding conditions in...
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We study a simple, microfounded macroeconomic system in which the monetary authority employs a Taylor-type policy rule. We analyze situations in which the self-confirming equilibrium is unique and learnable according to Bullard and Mitra (2002). We explore the prospects for the use of large...
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distinguish between these two shocks and, under incomplete learning, private perceptions of the inflation target will not equal …
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under private agent learning can in some cases be stable when the observed sunspot has a suitable time series structure. In …
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the help of econometric models. Agents use least squares learning to estimate two competing models of which one is … consistent with rational expectations once learning is complete. When past performance governs the choice of forecast model …
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policymakers, learning from the experience of the 1970s, eschewed activist policies in favor of policies that concentrated on the …
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learning and control, variants of which have been studied in the past, but little with forward-looking variables which are a … key component of modern policy-relevant models. As in most Bayesian learning problems, the optimal policy typically … good approximation to the BOP. We provide a simple example to illustrate the role of learning and experimentation in an …
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We study a simple, microfounded macroeconomic system in which the monetary authority employs a Taylor-type policy rule. We analyze situations in which the self-confirming equilibrium is unique and learnable according to Bullard and Mitra (2002). We explore the prospects for the use of ‘large...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005022420
policymakers, learning from the experience of the 1970s, eschewed activist policies in favor of policies that concentrated on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005022429
distinguish between these two shocks and, under incomplete learning, private perceptions of the inflation target will not equal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005138846