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We investigate the updating behavior of individual consumers regarding their shortand long-run inflation expectations … adjust their inflation expectations over a period of six months. We find evidence that the updating frequency has been …. Moreover, individual expectations are found to be more accurate after an update and forecast accuracy is affected by inflation …
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This paper introduces and studies the role of managerial attention allocation constraints in incentive contracts. We extend the traditional moral-hazard benchmark model with multi-tasking and linear incentive contracts by letting the principal choose the amount of monitoring allocated across...
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This paper presents a rational expectations model of asset prices with rationally inattentive investors that, unlike …
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Consumers often do not have complete information about the choices they face and therefore have to spend time and effort in acquiring information. Since information acquisition is costly, consumers have to trade-off the value of better information against its cost, and make their final choices...
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We show that, to form aggregate inflation expectations, consumers rely on the price changes they face in their daily …, matter for individuals’ inflation expectations. To document these facts, we collect novel micro data for a representative US … sample that uniquely match individual expectations, detailed information about consumption bundles, and item-level prices …
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We provide an information-based theory of matching efficiency fluctuations. Rationally inattentive firms have limited capacity to process information and cannot perfectly identify suitable applicants. During recessions, higher losses from hiring unsuitable workers cause firms to be more...
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attention to changes in their input costs, which leads to a flatter Phillips curve and more anchored inflation expectations …
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At the aggregate level, the evidence that deviations from purchasing power parity (PPP) are too persistent to be explained solely by nominal rigidities has long been a puzzle (Rogoff, 1996). Another puzzle from the micro price evidence of the law of one price (LOP), which is the basic building...
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Recent theoretical and empirical work characterizes attention as a limited resource that decision-makers strategically allocate. There has been less research on the dynamic interdependence of attention: how paying attention now may affect performance later. In this paper, we exploit...
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