Consumer confidence indicators(CCI) serve as a veritable tool for providing useful information to policy makers … of consumers in their expectations about the general state of the economy, even if their pessimism were not based on … economic fundamentals. This study evaluated the predictive ability of the CCI in forecasting economic fluctuations in Nigeria …

return beliefs mirrors the importance of exerting self-control, such that return expectations first increase as the exam … find this prediction confirmed: average subjective expectations of returns increase by about 20% over the period before the …

durable spending. Possible channels for these effects include more optimistic macroeconomic expectations and higher trust in …

durable spending. Possible channels for these effects include more optimistic macroeconomic expectations and higher trust in …