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For many decisions, people rely on information received from others by word of mouth. How does the process of verbal transmission distort economic information? In our experiments, participants listen to audio recordings containing economic forecasts and are paid to accurately transmit the...
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For many decisions, people rely on information received from others by word of mouth. How does the process of verbal transmission distort economic information? In our experiments, participants listen to audio recordings containing economic forecasts and are paid to accurately transmit the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014534411
of experts, U.S. households, and managers. We document substantial heterogeneity in narratives about the drivers of … experts. Moreover, narratives about the drivers of the inflation increase are strongly correlated with beliefs about its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012819006
We provide evidence on narratives about the macroeconomy — the stories people tell to explain macroeconomic phenomena … — in the context of a historic surge in inflation. We measure economic narratives in open-ended survey responses and … experts. We document three main findings. First, compared to experts, households' narratives are coarser, focus less on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013202291
analysis, opinion programs often convey conflicting narratives about reality. We experimentally document that people across the …. We then examine the consequences of diverging narratives between opinion programs in a high-stakes setting: the early … of the two most popular opinion programs, both on the same network, which adopted opposing narratives about the threat …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013330068
For most decisions, we rely on information encountered over the course of days, months or years. We consume this information in various forms, including abstract summaries of multiple data points – statistics – and contextualized anecdotes about individual instances – stories. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470365
We provide evidence on narratives about the macroeconomy—the stories people tell to explain macroeconomic phenomena …—in the context of a historic surge in inflation. We measure economic narratives in open-ended survey responses and represent … experts and document three main findings. First, households' narratives are strongly heterogeneous and coarser than experts …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377509
For many decisions, people rely on information received from others by word of mouth. How does the process of verbal transmission distort economic information? In our experiments, participants listen to audio recordings containing economic forecasts and are paid to accurately transmit the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014475804
For most decisions, we rely on information encountered over the course of days, months or years. We consume this information in various forms, including abstract summaries of multiple data points - statistics - and contextualized anecdotes about individual instances - stories. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014374369
of experts, U.S. households, and managers. We document substantial heterogeneity in narratives about the drivers of … experts. Moreover, narratives about the drivers of the inflation increase are strongly correlated with beliefs about its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012799460