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channels through which financial support affects consumer sentiment are creating more optimism about macroeconomic expectations …
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inflation and deflationary biases in inflation expectations. In a model with an occasionally binding zero-lower-bound constraint … of this model using unique individual-level inflation expectations data across nine countries that allow for a direct … identification of these biases. Both inflation and deflationary biases are present (and sizable) in inflation expectations of these …
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What is the role of heterogenous house-price expectations for boom-bust cycles in the housing market? We exploit a … unique Dutch panel data set on households' house price expectations and their consumption, savings and housing choices for … the sample on household heads who report non-zero house price expectations, we find that expectations closely track …
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Financial contracts are complicated and consumers often do not grasp them in their entirety. This may lead to financial mistakes. We develop a quantitative theory of unsecured credit and equilibrium default in a market with sophisticated and naïve borrowers who sometimes misunderstand their...
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The problem of expectations in economic models is reviewed through the intellectual development of the author. Initial … efforts at macroeconomic modeling such as Foley-Sidrauski (Foley and Sidrauski 1971) treated expectations as conditioning … expectations) in this context leads to saddle-point instability of equilibrium, and the unanswered question of what behavioral …
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extent that workers' (adaptive) price expectations lead to accelerating inflation or deflation, this will prompt central … among businessmen. Whereas economists before him tended to focus on the role of expectations in assets markets only …, Champernowne discussed expectations in both assets and labour markets. …
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