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. Macroeconomists increasingly rely on survey data on subjective expectations. An innovative approach to measure aggregate uncertainty … exploits the rounding patterns in individuals' responses to survey questions on inflation expectations (Binder, 2017). This … inflation expectations. …
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Macroeconomic expectations of various economic agents are characterized by substantial cross-sectional heterogeneity …. In this paper, we focus on expectations heterogeneity among professional forecasters. We first present stylized facts and … discuss theoretical explanations for heterogeneous expectations. We then provide an overview of the empirical evidence …
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stochastic volatility of asset prices and to give theoretical arguments for empirically well documented facts. We show that … stochastic volatility. …
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This paper introduces a reinforcement learning based approach to compute optimal interest rate reaction functions in terms of fulfilling inflation and output gap targets. The method is generally flexible enough to incorporate restrictions like the zero lower bound, nonlinear economy structures...
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less informed agents observe only a strict subset of the full information set. All types of agents form expectations …-fulling expectations. For parameter values that imply a unique equilibrium under full information, the limited information rational … expectations equilibrium is indeterminate. We illustrate our framework with a monetary policy problem where an imperfectly informed …
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A framework which allows for the joint testing of the adaptive and rational expectations hypotheses is presented. We … assume joint normality of expectations, realizations and variables in the information set, allowing for parsimonious …
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We introduce a novel method to elicit belief distributions and apply it to elicit inflation expectations in a … "Bins" method, popularized by the New York Fed's Survey of Consumer Expectations (SCE). Our findings reveal significant …
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In recent years, survey-based measures of expectations and disagreement have received increasing attention in economic …
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