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Welfare Effects of the Euro Cash Changeover

Wunder, Christoph; Schwarze, Johannes; Krug, Gerhard; … - 2021

negative impact are threefold. First, perceived inflation overestimates the real increase in prices resulting in suboptimal …

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Nonresponse and Focal Point Answers to Subjective Probability Questions

Kleinjans, Kristin J. - 2010

We develop and estimate a panel data model explaining the answers to questions about subjective probabilities, using data from the US Health and Retirement Study. We explicitly account for nonresponse, rounding, and focal point 50 percent answers. Our results indicate that for three of the four...

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Experimental Tests of Survey Responses to Expenditure Questions

Comerford, David - 2009

This paper tests for a number of survey effects in the elicitation of expenditure items. In particular we examine the extent to which individuals use features of the expenditure question to construct their answers. We test whether respondents interpret question wording as researchers intend and...

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Validating the Use of Vignettes for Subjective Threshold Scales

Soest, Arthur van; Delaney, Liam; Harmon, Colm; … - 2021

Ireland. Model comparisons using the Akaike information criterion favor a specification with response consistency and vignette …

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Public Opinion on Immigration in Europe : Preference versus Salience

Hatton, Timothy J. - 2017

There is growing interest among economists in public opinion towards immigration, something that is often seen as the foundation for restrictive immigration policies. Existing studies have focused on the responses to survey questions on whether the individual would prefer more or less...

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Does Education Reduce Wage Inequality? Quantile Regressions Evidence from Fifteen European Countries

Pereira, Pedro Telhado; Martins, Pedro S. - 2021

, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK; 3) a neutral role - Denmark and Italy; and 4) a negative impact …

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The Expected, Perceived, and Realized Inflation of U.S. Households Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Weber, Michael; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Coibion, Olivier - 2022

As the pandemic spread across the U.S., disagreement among U.S. households about inflation expectations surged along … with the mean perceived and expected level of inflation. Simultaneously, the inflation experienced by households became … between the inflation experienced by households in their daily shopping and their perceived and expected levels of inflation …

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How Does Consumption Respond to News About Inflation? Field Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial

Coibion, Olivier - 2019

We implement a survey of Dutch households in which random subsets of respondents receive information about inflation …. The resulting exogenously generated variation in inflation expectations is used to assess how expectations affect … subsequent monthly consumption decisions relative to those in a control group. The causal effects of elevated inflation …

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Financial Expectations and Household Consumption : Does Middle Inflation Matter?

Brown, Sarah - 2020

account middle-inflation overestimate the impact of financial expectations …

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Is the Price Right? The Role of Morals, Ideology, and Tradeoff Thinking in Explaining Reactions to Price Surges

Elías, Julio; Lacetera, Nicola; Macis, Mario - 2022

Price surges often generate social disapproval and requests for regulation and price controls, but these interventions may cause inefficiencies and shortages. To study how individuals perceive and reason about sudden price increases for different products under different policy regimes, we...

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