cultural identity and financial expectations and by large unrelated to economic background variables like income inequality. We … find evidence that negative financial expectations are positively related to Euroskepticism in Western European countries …

in macroeconomics, economic policy was supposed to work merely through the impact of its announcement on expectations. He … claimed that optimistic expectations of income growth would be created by credible announcement to use government spending to … bring the economy to its required growth rate. Confident expectations generated by government's assurance of future growth …

.g. output, output per hour) and a positive correlation between long-run growth expectations and cyclical activities. Existing … features comovement and mutual influence of households' growth expectations and market outcomes, which can replicate the … evidence, and suggests a critical role for shifting long-run growth expectations in business cycle fluctuations. …