data from the European Commission's Business and Consumer Surveys on people's expectations of life in general, their … Recession and during Covid, but bounced back quickly, as did firms' expectations of the economy and the labor market. Neither … slightly after 2020 as life expectancy dipped. This secular improvement is mirrored in life satisfaction which has been rising …

cultural identity and financial expectations and by large unrelated to economic background variables like income inequality. We … find evidence that negative financial expectations are positively related to Euroskepticism in Western European countries …

This paper analyzes the role of uncertainty on both exchange rate expectations and forecast errors of professionals for … the adjustment of exchange rate expectations. Our findings are robust to different forecasting horizons and point to an …