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This address considers the epidemiology of narratives relevant to economic fluctuations. The human brain has always been highly tuned towards narratives, whether factual or not, to justify ongoing actions, even such basic actions as spending and investing. Stories motivate and connect activities...
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The narrative approach to macroeconomic identification uses qualitative sources, such as newspapers or government records, to provide information that can help establish causal relationships. This paper discusses the requirements for rigorous narrative analysis using fresh research on the impact...
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We study the generation, transmission, and effects of causal narratives - narratives which describe a (potentially incorrect) causal relationship between variables. In a controlled experiment, we show that exogenously generated causal narratives manipulate the beliefs and actions of subjects in...
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We study how negative sentiment around an industry impacts beliefs and behaviors, focusing on demands for racial justice after the murder of George Floyd and the salience of the "defund the police" movement. We assess stakeholder beliefs on the impact of protests on the stock prices of...
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We argue that recoveries from demand-driven recessions with expenditure cuts concentrated in services or non-durables will tend to be weaker than recoveries from recessions more biased towards durables. Intuitively, the smaller the bias towards more durable goods, the less the recovery is...
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: whereas some consumers welcome the opportunity to purchase and learn about the new technology, for others the inconvenience …
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respect the privacy of consumers. But nonrivalry leads to other consequences that are less obvious. Because of nonrivalry …. Instead, giving the data property rights to consumers can generate allocations that are close to optimal. Consumers balance …
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This paper argues that firms have an informational advantage over consumers in selecting arbitrators in consumer … selected. Third, more experienced firms and less sophisticated consumers select more industry friendly arbitrators. We develop … and calibrate a model of arbitrator selection with uninformed consumers. We find that competition between arbitrators …
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years, questions have arisen about whether its services help or harm consumers. In response, states have increasingly … consumers. On balance, our results also seem to support the relevance of theories of occupational licensing that stress the …
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-functioning marketplace, suggest that prospect theory adequately organizes behavior among inexperienced consumers, whereas consumers with …
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