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Using a survey among more than 2,000 consumers in the Netherlands, we examine the drivers of trust in the financial …
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Using three waves of a customised survey among Dutch households, this paper studies the variation in people's views on inflation. Based on a range of panel regressions, we find that accurate perceptions of recent price changes are an important determinant of the accuracy of next-year inflation...
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The communication policy of the European Central Bank attracts a lot of attention from financial markets. This paper analyses the informational content of the monthly introductory statements of the ECB president explaining interest rate decisions with regard to inflation expectations of...
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We study whether firms' expectations react to the Bank of England's monetary policy announcements by comparing the responses to the Decision Maker Panel (DMP) survey filed immediately before and after a Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) meeting. On the one hand, we find that firms' expectations...
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We quantified the relative importance of the precautionary motive in determining savings. Existing empirical evidence suggests that the impact of precautionary savings is small if one uses a subjective measure of uncertainty about next year income. However, other studies use an ‘objective'...
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Household investment mistakes are an important concern for researchers and policymakers alike; portfolio …
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of a dataset on household consumption choices …
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We investigate the effects of demographics, household expenditure and female employment on the allocation of household … interactions between household expenditure and demographics are of significant importance in explaining the allocation to consumer …
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Since the beginnings of the eighties house prices in the Netherlands haveincreased steadily and considerably. In this …
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panel data for the period from April 2009 to November 2012, we examine the relationship between a household's inflation … expectations and its current spending by taking into account other factors, such as the household's wage growth expectations, the … uncertainty surrounding its inflation expectations, macroeconomic conditions, and unobserved heterogeneity at the household level …
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