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This paper explores the price-setting behavior of Austrian firms based on survey evidence. Our main result is that …
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We document novel survey-based facts about preferred long-run inflation rates among US consumers. Consumers on average …
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Using data from the ECB's Survey of Professional Forecasters, we investigate the reporting practices of survey … inflation rates. Most importantly, for each survey round, the aggregate survey results based on the average of the individual … point predictions are also biased. These findings cast doubt on combined survey measures that average individual point …
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This paper studies the recent trends in nominal wage rigidity in a large group of EU countries, using survey data. We …
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We use firm-level survey data from 25 EU countries to analyse how firms adjust their labour costs (employment, wages …
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We analyse the use of active labour market policy (ALMP) measures and short-time work arrangements (STWAs) by Luxembourg firms during the years of economic and financial crisis (2008-09) and the subsequent European sovereign debt crisis (2010-13). About 34% of Luxembourg firms used ALMPs between...
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Using firm-level data from a large-scale European survey among 20 countries, we analyse the determinants of firms using …
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This paper reports the results of a survey of former members of the Governing Council of the European Central Bank … the ambiguity of the "below, but close to, 2%" formulation that was in place at the time of the survey. …
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Using a dedicated set of questions in the 2014 Luxembourg Household Finance and Consumption Survey (LU-HFCS), we show …
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