Showing 1 - 10 of 2,013
Why are some people more optimistic about their life than others? Literature on locus of control suggests that optimism is associated with the belief that one's life outcomes are controlled by internal factors, such as ability, instead of external factors, such as powerful others or chance....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266644
interest rate expectations from the Survey of Professional Forecasters (SPF). The results provide important takeaways: (1) The … data. Thus, accounting for imperfect credibility is important to model the formation of expectations in the economy and to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012844416
expectations for a variety of purposes, including studies of the Fisher effect, the debt deflation hypothesis, central bank … credibility, and expectations formation. I survey the statistical, narrative, and market-based approaches that have been used to … estimate inflation expectations in historical eras, including the classical gold standard era, the hyperinflations of the 1920s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012989845
multi-period forecasting model that is estimated under both adaptive learning and rational expectations. Term structure … information enables us to characterize agents' expectations in real time, which addresses an imperfect information issue mostly … neglected in the adaptive learning literature. Relative to the rational expectations version, our estimated DSGE model under …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012928645
which these agents form their expectations on the basis of simple forecasting rules. The approach used allows a distinction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013241253
interest rate expectations from the Survey of Professional Forecasters (SPF). The results provide important takeaways: (1) The … data. Thus, accounting for imperfect credibility is important to model the formation of expectations in the economy and to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012846480
The paper considers a New Keynesian framework in which agents form expectations based on a combination of mis …-specified forecasts and myopia. The proposed expectations formation process is found to be consistent with all three empirical facts on … paper then derives the general equilibrium solution consistent with the proposed expectations formation process and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013299210
response of unemployment to such shock if one allows for small deviation from rational expectations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014352734
decisions with regard to inflation expectations of financial market experts for the euro area from February 1999 to June 2007 …. Estimations are conducted for the influence of ECB communication on expectations formation besides other macroeconomic variables … of inflation expectations formation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297941
minorities, are highly heterogeneous in their expectations of inflation. We estimate a model of inflation expectations based on … outperforms existing models of inflation expectations in explaining the heterogeneity in the data. We find that women, ethnic … update their expectations. In addition, we show that personal income forecasts are positively related to subjective inflation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287086