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and uncertainty in the 70s. The currently low long term interest rates and inflation expectations might hide the true risk …
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We provide evidence on the stories that people tell to explain a historically notable rise in inflation using samples of experts, U.S. households, and managers. We document substantial heterogeneity in narratives about the drivers of higher inflation rates. Experts put more emphasis on...
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We survey retail investors at an online bank to study beliefs about the autocorrelation of aggregate stock returns, and how these beliefs shape investment decisions measured in administrative account data. Individuals' beliefs exhibit substantial heterogeneity and predict trading responses to...
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This paper provides direct evidence of the importance of firm attention to macro-economic dynamics. We construct a text-based measure of firm attention to macro-economic news and document firm attention that is polarized and countercyclical. Differences in attention lead to asymmetric responses...
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This paper develops a model where firms make state-dependent decisions on both pricing and acquisition of information. It is shown that when information is not perfect, menu costs combined with the aggregate price level serving as an endogenous public signal generate rigidity in price setting...
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Survey data on inflation expectations show that: (i) private sector forecasts and central bank forecasts are not fully … aligned and (ii) private sector forecasters disagree about inflation expectations. To reconcile these two facts we introduce … dispersed information in a New Keynesian model, where as a result, inflation expectations differ between the private sector and …
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and debt positions. Once they receive information on this erosion channel, they update perceptions and expectations about …
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examine a purely forward-looking New Keynesian Phillips curve with heterogeneous expectations, where the coordination of … is allowed to vary, there exist multiple equilibria: rational expectations equilibrium without any inertia and …
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