Showing 1 - 10 of 2,528
Bayes' statistical rule remains the status quo for modeling belief updating in both normative and descriptive models of behavior under uncertainty. Recent research has questioned the use of Bayes' rule in descriptive models of behavior, presenting evidence that people overweight 'good news'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011542204
Measuring economic uncertainty is crucial for understanding investment decisions by individuals and firms. Macroeconomists increasingly rely on survey data on subjective expectations. An innovative approach to measure aggregate uncertainty exploits the rounding patterns in individuals' responses...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012034114
This paper examines the role of alternative assumptions on savings and expectations for the fixwage traverse with … under the Hicksian Q-Assumption are investigated. Subsequently, the consequences of several savings functions consistent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428326
We decompose permanent earnings risk into contributions from hours and wage shocks. To distinguish between hours shocks, modeled as innovations to the marginal disutility of work, and labor supply reactions to wage shocks we formulate a life-cycle model of consumption and labor supply. Both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012145317
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014297006
and the real-time prediction of professional forecasters. We find that optimism shocks - in line with theory - generate a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011649164
At the zero lower bound (ZLB), expectations about the future path of monetary or fiscal policy are crucial. We model expectations formation under level-k thinking, a form of bounded rationality introduced by García-Schmidt and Woodford (2019) and Farhi and Werning (2017), consistent with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012101259
-likelihood estimation is carried out using the Geweke-Hajivassilou-Keane (GHK) method, which is consistent and has low variance. The latter …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011620075
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014631356
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428088