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Fundamental disagreement about monetary policy and the term structure of interest rates
Cao, Shuo; Crump, Richard K.; Eusepi, Stefano; Mönch, … - 2021 - Revised August 2021
Using a unique data set of individual professional forecasts, we document disagreement about the future path of monetary policy, particularly at longer horizons. The stark differences in short rate forecasts imply strong disagreement about the risk-return trade-off of longer-term bonds....
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The impact of news on US household inflation expectations
Chao, Shih-Kang; Härdle, Wolfgang; Sheen, Jeffrey R.; … - 2017
Analysis of monthly disaggregated data from 1978 to 2016 on US household in ation expectations reveals that exposure to news on in ation and monetary policy helps to explain in ation expectations. This remains true when controlling for household personal characteristics, their perceptions of the...
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Occupation growth, skill prices, and wage inequality
Böhm, Michael; Gaudecker, Hans-Martin von; Schran, Felix - 2022
This paper studies the relationship between occupational employment, occupational wages, and rising wage inequality. We document that in all occupations, entrants and leavers earn less than stayers. This suggests selection effects that are negative for growing occupations and positive for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013257695
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Occupation growth, skill prices, and wage inequality
Böhm, Michael; Gaudecker, Hans-Martin von; Schran, Felix - 2019
This paper studies the relationship between changes in occupational employment, occupational wages, and rising overall wage inequality. Using long-running administrative panel data with detailed occupation codes, we first document that in all occupations, entrants and leavers earn lower wages...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012110206
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Occupation growth, skill prices, and wage inequality
Böhm, Michael; Gaudecker, Hans-Martin von; Schran, Felix - 2019
This paper studies the relationship between changes in occupational employment, occupational wages, and rising overall wage inequality. Using long-running administrative panel data with detailed occupation codes, we first document that in all occupations, entrants and leavers earn lower wages...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012120603
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Fundamentals or Fads? Pipes, Not Punting, Explain Commodity Prices and Volatility
Fenton, Colin P. - 2011
In assessing drivers of commodity prices and volatility at this stage of the current super-cycle in commodities (year 12 of a projected 25), it is vital to understand that production cost is a fundamental. Moreover, marginal production costs are among the most powerful drivers of commodity...
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Human capital investments and expectations about career and family
Wiswall, Matthew; Zafar, Basit - 2016
This paper studies how individuals believe human capital investments will affect their future career and family life. We conducted a survey of high-ability currently enrolled college students and elicited beliefs about how their choice of college major, and whether to complete their degree at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011536082
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Human Capital Investments and Expectations About Career and Family
Wiswall, Matthew - 2017
This paper studies how individuals believe human capital investments will affect their future career and family life. We conducted a survey of high-ability currently enrolled college students and elicited beliefs about how their choice of college major, and whether to complete their degree at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968273
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Cognition, optimism and the formation of age-dependent survival beliefs
Grevenbrock, Nils; Groneck, Max; Ludwig, Alexander; … - 2020
-shaped probability weighting functions. Our estimates suggest that implied measures for cognitive weakness increase and relative optimism … decrease with age. We document that direct measures of cognitive weakness and optimism share these trends. Our regression … finding is that cognitive weakness rather than optimism is an increasingly important contributor to the well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012303266
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Cognition, optimism and the formation of age-dependent survival beliefs
Grevenbrock, Nils; Groneck, Max; Ludwig, Alexander; … - 2019
: cognitive weakness rather than optimism is an increasingly important contributor to overestimation of survival chances in old …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012062116