Foreign stock ownership is known to be very limited across households. This paper studies the role of information acquisition on agents' decisions to invest in foreign stocks. Using the Survey of Consumer Finances, I show that foreign stock holders, when compared to those who hold only domestic...

Fiscal support measures in response to the COVID-19 pandemic varied in their targeted beneficiaries. Relying on variability across 10 large economies, we study differences in the inflationary effects of fiscal support measures targeting consumers or businesses. Because conventional measures of...

Fiscal support measures in response to the COVID-19 pandemic varied in their targeted beneficiaries. Relying on variability across 10 large economies, we study differences in the inflationary effects of fiscal support measures targeting consumers or businesses. Because conventional measures of...