unconventional policies that aim to increase households' spending directly through managing their expectations. We first show … theoretically and empirically that higher in ation expectations increase households' consumption. We then design a difference … demand via managing expectations. Whereas unconventional fiscal policy increases households' expectations and spending …

to time-varying macroeconomic dynamics. To do so, we build a New Keynesian model with long-horizon expectations and … utility and firms maximise the discounted flow of future profits), their current decisions are influenced by expectations of … expectations equilibrium of these models. We assume that agents have access to a set of alternative predictors that can be used to …

Previous experimental investigations have shown that expectations are not perfectly rational due to bias. Traditional … adaptive models, however, in many cases do not perfectly describe the formation of expectations either. This paper makes two … contributions to the experimental literature on the formation of expectations: First, we investigate whether subjects who have more …

According to the expectations channel, a fiscal consolidation may give rise to less contractionary, or even … design a laboratory experiment to study the conditions under which the expectations channel operates. Our results indicate … consumption, which supports the expectations channel. We also find that the expectations channel is more pronounced if the fiscal …