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We study the term structure of disagreement of professional forecasters for key macroeconomic variables. We document a novel set of facts: 1) forecasters disagree at all horizons, including the very long run; 2) the shape of the term structure of disagreement differs markedly across variables:...
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We propose a new approach to assessing the anchoring of inflation expectations using "strategic surveys". Namely, we … measure households' revisions in long-run inflation expectations after they are presented with different economic scenarios. A …-run inflation expectations. We implement the method in the summer of 2019 and the spring-summer of 2021 when the anchoring of long …
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We study the behavior of U.S. consumers' inflation expectations during the high inflation period of 2021-22 using data … from the Survey of Consumer Expectations. Short- and, to a lesser extent, mediumterm inflation expectations rose as … inflation continued to climb, medium- and longerterm inflation expectations unexpectedly fell and medium- and longer …
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We study how peer beliefs shape individual attitudes toward maternal labor supply using realistic hypothetical scenarios that elicit recommendations on the labor supply choices of a mother with a young child and an information treatment embedded within representative surveys. Across the...
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long-run price stability depends critically on expectations about labor market tightness. Using a variety of cross …
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Economic theory predicts that intertemporal decisions depend critically on expectations about future outcomes. Using … of expectations for output growth, inflation, and the policy rate. We show that a simple unobserved components model of … the trend and cycle explains the joint behavior of both consensus measures of expectations and the observed disagreement …
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Using a unique data set of individual professional forecasts, we document disagreement about the future path of monetary policy, particularly at longer horizons. The stark differences in short rate forecasts imply strong disagreement about the risk-return trade-off of longer-term bonds....
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rates via the expectations hypothesis (EH). While the EH has been systematically rejected in the data, existing work … evaluating the EH generally assumes either full-information rational expectations or stationarity of beliefs, or both. As such … the EH. We introduce a model of expectations formation which features time-varying means and accommodates deviations from …
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respect to variation in the real interest rate - using subjective expectations from the newly released FRBNY Survey of … Consumer Expectations (SCE). This dataset is unique, since it includes consumers' expectations of both consumption growth and …
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This paper presents new survey evidence on workers' response to the 2011 payroll tax cuts. While workers intended to spend 10 to 18 percent of their tax-cut income, they reported actually spending 28 to 43 percent of the funds. This is higher than estimates from studies of recent tax cuts, and...
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