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This paper investigates the expectations formation process of economic agents about inflation rate. Using the Market … Expectations System of Central Bank of Brazil, we perceive that agents do not update their forecasts every period and that even …
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expectations may be relevant in practice. This paper evaluates the empirical performance of the LQAC-model using Norwegian data and … exporters act on expectations based models in the formation of prices. …
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realistic expectations later on. This paper shows that the costs induced by high aspirations are not trivial. We first develop a … evidence from a lab experiment on the factor found to be crucial: the adjustment of reference states to changes in expectations …
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The paper introduces the concept of adjustment utility, that is, referencedependent utility from expectations. It …
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candidate is expectations: what people expect could affect how they feel about what actually occurs. In a real-effort experiment …, we manipulate the rational expectations of subjects and check whether this manipulation influences their effort provision …-based reference-dependent preferences: if expectations are high, subjects work longer and earn more money than if expectations are low. …
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Previous experimental investigations have shown that expectations are not perfectly rational due to bias. Traditional … adaptive models, however, in many cases do not perfectly describe the formation of expectations either. This paper makes two … contributions to the experimental literature on the formation of expectations: First, we investigate whether subjects who have more …
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In this paper we report the results of a laboratory experiment, in which we observed the behavior of agents in a simple macroeconomic setting. The structure of the economy was only partially known to the players which is a realistic feature of our experiment. We investigate whether subjects...
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Why are some people more optimistic about their life than others? Literature on locus of control suggests that optimism is associated with the belief that one's life outcomes are controlled by internal factors, such as ability, instead of external factors, such as powerful others or chance....
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candidate is expectations: what people expect could affect how they feel about what actually occurs. In a real-effort experiment …, we manipulate the rational expectations of subjects and check whether this manipulation influences their effort provision …-based reference-dependent preferences: if expectations are high, subjects work longer and earn more money than if expectations are low. …
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Labor market programs may affect unemployed individuals' behavior before they enroll. Such ex ante effects may differ according to ethnic origin. We apply a novel method that relates self-reported perceived treatment rates and job search behavioral outcomes, such as the reservation wage or...
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