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manifestation of this phenomenon is the tendency to neglect future inflation in intertemporal investment decisions. Empirical … evidence for this “inflation ignorance” is hard to establish due to the host of factors that simultaneously change with the … inflation rate. We avoid these identification issues by conducting a controlled and fully incentivized investment experiment. We …
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Poor households report significantly higher inflation expectations than rich households. We assess, both theoretically … about aggregate inflation. Using data on shopping experiences, we show that the inflation expectations of each income group … depend on the group's past grocery experiences as well as on past aggregate inflation. To explain this finding, we build a …
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We study how inflation and deflation affect firms' ability to cooperate in an experimental Bertrand duopoly with … differentiated products. We find that there is significantly less cooperation in the treatments with inflation and deflation compared … to the no-inflation treatments. The difficulties to cooperate affect prices and welfare: Depending on the market …
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We compare three implementation schemes of an infinite-horizon monetary economy with discounting. Under the standard random termination scheme and its block variation, the economy lasts for an indefinite number of periods and the discounting factor is captured by the probability that the economy...
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Inflation expectations are central to economics because they affect the effectiveness of fiscal and monetary policy as … well as realized inflation. We survey the recent literature with a focus on the inflation expectations of households. We … first review standard data sources and discuss their advantages and disadvantages. We then document that household inflation …
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