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implications for improving the effectiveness of central bank communications …
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1990s. It shows that if the central bank is committed to reverse policy errors it makes because of unwarranted optimism …, inflation can remain in check even if the central bank keeps interest rates low because of this optimism. In particular, a price … public does not share the central bank's optimism about shifts in potential output. The paper shows that price level …
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We study how different forms of communication influence the inflation expectations of individuals in a randomized controlled trial. We first solicit individuals' inflation expectations in the Nielsen Homescan panel and then provide eight different forms of information regarding inflation....
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Using a new survey of European households, we study how exogenous variation in the macroeconomic uncertainty perceived by households affects their spending decisions. We use randomized information treatments that provide different types of information about the first and/or second moments of...
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We study the effects and historical contribution of monetary policy shocks to consumption and income inequality in the United States since 1980. Contractionary monetary policy actions systematically increase inequality in labor earnings, total income, consumption and total expenditures....
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To understand the effects of large-scale asset purchase programs recently implemented by central banks, we study how markets absorb large demand shocks for risk-free debt. Using high-frequency identification, we exploit the structure of the primary market for U.S. Treasuries to isolate demand...
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' perspectives on bank stability, the potential for panic-driven bank runs, and the role of public communication. When informed about … SVB's collapse, households become more likely to withdraw deposits, due to both a higher perceived risk of bank failure … and higher expected losses on deposits in case of bank failure. Leveraging hypothetical questions and the exogenous …
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This paper provides new survey evidence on firms' inflation expectations in the euro area. Building on the ECB's Survey …
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We match survey data of Italian firms that includes a repeated experiment in which information about inflation is randomly provided to firms over time with detailed credit data that covers the borrowing decisions of firms. This allows us to study how exogenous variation in inflation expectations...
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Using Italian data that includes both inflation forecasts of firms and external information on their balance sheets, we study the causal effect of changes in the dispersion of beliefs about future inflation on the misallocation of resources. We find that as disagreement increases, so does...
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