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Managing households' expectations with salient economic policies

D'Acunto, Francesco; Hoang, Daniel; Weber, Michael - 2019 - This version: August 2019

consumption via managing inflation expectations based on the Euler equation. Unconventional fiscal policy uses trivial … announcements of future consumer-price increases to boost inflation expectations and consumption expenditure on impact. Instead …

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Unconventional fiscal policy, inflation expectations, and consumption expenditure

D'Acunto, Francesco; Hoang, Daniel; Weber, Michael - 2016

Unconventional fiscal policies incentivize households to accelerate consumption by generating future consumer price … study the causal effect of unconventional fiscal policies on consumption expenditure via the inflation-expectations channel … intratemporal substitution from non-durable to durable consumption. …

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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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How to finance climate change policies? : evidence from consumers' beliefs

D'Acunto, Francesco; Möhrle, Sascha; Neumeier, Florian; … - 2022

Climate change policies have been rising to the top of the global political agenda, but how should governments finance them? Public economists propose solutions based on economic theory, but their political feasibility depends on voters' support, and ordinary households often neglect economic...

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How did U.S. consumers use their stimulus payments?

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

Act affected their consumption, saving and labor-supply decisions. Most respondents report that they primarily saved or …

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Monetary policy and the stock market : time-series evidence

Neuhierl, Andreas; Weber, Michael - 2016

We construct a slope factor from changes in federal funds futures of different horizons. Slope predicts stock returns at the weekly frequency: faster monetary policy easing positively predicts excess returns. Investors can achieve increases in weekly Sharpe ratios of 20% conditioning on the...

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Monetary policy through production networks : evidence from the stock market

Ozdagli, Ali; Weber, Michael - 2017 - This version: May 2017

Monetary policy shocks have a large impact on aggregate stock market returns in narrow event windows around press releases by the Federal Open Market Committee. We use spatial autoregressions to decompose the overall effect of monetary policy shocks into a direct (demand) effect and an indirect...

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