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A growing number of surveys elicit respondents' expectations for future events on a 0-100 scale of percent chance … Health and Retirement Study. We discover a tendency by about half of the respondents to provide more refined responses in the … find that rounding varies across question domains, which range from personal health to personal finances to macroeconomic …
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Expert elicitations of future energy technology costs can improve energy policy design by explicitly characterizing … 65 experts, of the future costs of photovoltaics (PV) and evaluate the impact of expert and study characteristics on the … than do US experts. Higher R&D investment is associated with lower future costs. Rather than increasing confidence, high R …
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Economists commonly suppose that persons have probabilistic expectations for uncertain events, yet empirical research measuring expectations was long rare. The inhibition against collection of expectations data has gradually lessened, generating a substantial body of recent evidence on the...
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In this chapter, we discuss field experiments in surveys that are conducted with the purpose of learning about expectation formation and the link between expectations and behavior. We begin by reviewing the rationale for conducting experiments within surveys, rather than just relying on...
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conditional on flexible controls for an individual's forecasted distribution of future home-price growth. Many respondents …
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Economists commonly suppose that persons have probabilistic expectations for uncertain events, yet empirical research measuring expectations was long rare. The inhibition against collection of expectations data has gradually lessened, generating a substantial body of recent evidence on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455263