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Obama and the macroeconomy estimating social preferences between unemployment and inflation

Enkelmann, Soeren - 2013

This paper investigates social preferences towards unemployment and inflation in the United States. Estimating a popularity function with monthly data for the recent Obama administration, we find that U.S. voters react strongly to both unemployment and inflation. However, reducing unemployment...

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Obama and the Macroeconomy Estimating Social Preferences Between Unemployment and Inflation

Enkelmann, Soeren - 2013

This paper investigates social preferences towards unemployment and ination in the United States. Estimating a popularity function with monthly data for the recent Obama administration, we find that U.S. voters react strongly to both unemployment and inflation. However, reducing unemployment is...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010643639

Estimating the public's social preference function between inflation and unemployment using survey data: The survey research center versus Gallup

Taylor, Susan W.; Smyth, David J.; Dua, Pami - In: Empirical Economics 24 (1999) 3, pp. 361-372

preference function between inflation and unemployment for the Carter, Reagan, Bush and Clinton presidencies. The estimates that … inflation and unemployment. We compare whether the Gallup or SRC data are the more useful for estimating the public's social …

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