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How do consumers adapt to a new environment in their economic forecasting? : evidence from the German reunification
Goldfayn-Frank, Olga; Wohlfart, Johannes - 2019
Exploiting the natural experiment of the German reunification, we examine how consumers adapt to a new environment in their macroeconomic forecasting. We document that East Germans expect higher inflation and make larger forecast errors than West Germans even decades after reunification....
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House price expectations and housing choice
Ludwig, Alexander; Mankart, Jochen; Quintana, Jorge; … - 2019
unique Dutch panel data set on households' house price expectations and their consumption, savings and housing choices for …
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Overconfidence and gender differences in wage expectations
Briel, Stephanie; Pfeifer, Gregor; Reutter, Mirjam; … - 2019 - Preliminary Draft
We analyze the impact of overconfidence on gender differences in wage expectations using elicited beliefs of German university applicants. Interestingly, female students have lower wage expectations and are less overconfident than their male counterparts. Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions show that...
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Be positive and see yourself burdened with debt? : the effect of biased expectations on (over)-indebtedness
Klühs, Theres; Koch, Melanie; Stein, Wiebke - 2019
Household over-indebtedness has increased worldwide. This study investigates one possible reason for this increase: biased income expectations. Thereby, we refer to the "permanent income hypothesis", which predicts that individuals borrow more today if they expect a higher income in the future....
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Socioeconomic determinants of health status among older adults in Poland
Kludacz-Alessandri, Magdalena; Cygańska, Małgorzata - In: Eurasian economic perspectives : proceedings of the …, (pp. 239-253). 2020
study was the panel data from wave 6 of SHARE (the Survey of Health, Aging, and Retirement in Europe). This database …
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Understanding the improvement in disability free life expectancy in the U.S. elderly population
Chernew, Michael; Cutler, David M.; Ghosh, Kaushik; … - In: Insights in the economics of aging, (pp. 161-204). 2017
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Save, spend or give? : a model of housing, family insurance, and savings in old age
Barczyk, Daniel; Fahle, Sean; Kredler, Matthias - 2021
Housing and family are prominent aspects of old age, but how they shape the elderly's savings, spending, and inter … savings behavior of homeowners and renters, the puzzling similarities in the bequests of parents and childless individuals …
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Information frictions among firms and households
Link, Sebastian; Peichl, Andreas; Roth, Christopher; … - 2021
We use surveys of German households and firms to study the extent of information frictions among different groups of economic agents. Firms' expectations about the central bank policy rate, inflation, and aggregate unemployment are more aligned with expert forecasts and less dispersed than...
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Arctic zone of the North-Eastern region of Russia : problems of demographic development
Sukne͏̈va, Svetlana A. - 2014
mortality of the Arctic region. In Russia, in recent years, mortality rates are currently falling. The high mortality rate is … observed in the Arctic zone. The reason for this situation is the high level of mortality from external causes, which is one … Arctic zone. Priority directions to improve the demographic situation in the Arctic should be to reduce mortality and improve …
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Demography and low-frequency capital flows
Backus, David; Cooley, Thomas F.; Henriksen, Espen - In: Journal of international economics 92 (2014), pp. 94-102
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