Economists have long emphasized the importance of expectations in determining macroeconomic outcomes Yet there has been … almost no recent effort to model actual empirical expectations data; instead macroeconomists usually simply assume … expectations are rational This paper shows that while empirical household expectations are not rational in the usual sense …

Since the foundational work of Keynes (1936) macroeconomists have emphasized the importance of agents' expectations in … empirical expectations data instead assuming all agents' expectations are rational This paper takes up the challenge of modeling … empirical household expectations data and shows that a simple standard model from epidemiology does a remarkably good job of …

expectations about terrorism, and study the effects these last have on households' portfolio choices and spending patterns. We find …

with unemployment and bargaining frictions. Shocks to long-run inflation expectations appear to account for much of the … expectations; in fact, conditions were deflationary all throughout the 1930s in spite of high money growth and low interest rates …

last three decades. Are lagged dependent variables - traditionally interpreted as proxies for inflation expectations - just … expectations in the inflation process; if indeed inflation is a global phenomenon, the task of controlling inflation expectations … inflation expectations. Are the actions of central banks nothing more than a sideshow? …

day-to-day changes in expectations of future US monetary policy, in the context of a study of day-to-day exchange rate … changes. We analyze more than 12 years of daily exchange rate data and show that continuous day-to-day changes in expectations …