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We implement a survey of Dutch households in which random subsets of respondents receive information about inflation. The resulting exogenously generated variation in inflation expectations is used to assess how expectations affect subsequent monthly consumption decisions relative to those in a...
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. Information treatments about current and next year's interest rates have a strong effect on household expectations but treatments …
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primary surpluses should lead households to anticipate this higher inflation. Are household inflation expectations sensitive …
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Households' and firms' subjective inflation expectations play a central role in macroeconomic and intertemporal microeconomic models. We discuss how subjective inflation expectations are measured, the patterns they display, their determinants, and how they shape households' and firms' economic...
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Using British panel data, we explore the finding that households often expect theirÂ…financial position to remain unchanged compared to other alternatives, using a generalised middle inflated ordered probit (GMIOP) model. In doing so we account for the tendency of individuals to choose...
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luxury goods. Moreover, uncertainty reduces household propensity to invest in mutual funds. These results support the notion … that macroeconomic uncertainty can impact household decisions and have large negative effects on economic outcomes. …
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and second moments of inflation expectations separately affect subsequent household decisions. We document several key … encourages household job search, leading to higher subsequent employment among the unemployed and less under-employment among the …
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transnational household decision-making efficiency. Our setting is the migration of Tongans to New Zealand through a migration … and pro-market beliefs. We also link migrants and potential migrants to a partner household consisting of family members … large change in economic institutions, and a reduction in interactions with partner household members. Despite these changes …
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We examine the long-term impacts of international migration by comparing immigrants who had successful ballot entries in a migration lottery program, and first moved almost a decade ago, with people who had unsuccessful entries into those same ballots. The long-term gain in income is found to be...
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This paper provides new survey evidence on firms' inflation expectations in the euro area. Building on the ECB's Survey on the Access to Finance of Enterprises (SAFE), we introduce consistent measurement of inflation expectations across countries and shed new light on the properties and causal...
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