Surveys are an essential approach for eliciting otherwise invisible factors such as
perceptions, knowledge and beliefs, attitudes, and reasoning. These factors are critical …

Abstract Information provision experiments allow researchers to test economic theories and
answer policy-relevant questions by varying the information set available to respondents …

Using a representative online panel from the United States, we examine how individuals'
macroeconomic expectations causally affect their personal economic prospects and their …

ABSTRACT A growing body of work has shown that aggregate shocks affect the formation of
preferences and beliefs. This article reviews evidence from sociology, social psychology …

This paper introduces the Consumer Expectations Survey (CES), a new online, high
frequency panel survey of euro area consumers' expectations and behaviour. The paper …

A general concern with the representativeness of internet surveys is that they exclude the
“offline” population that does not use the internet. We run a large-scale opinion survey with …

Rising government debt levels around the world are raising the specter that authorities might
seek to inflate away the debt. In theoretical settings where fiscal policy “dominates” monetary …

It is well documented that people have misperceptions about energy costs. However, there
is mixed empirical evidence about the effectiveness of information provision and its …

We study how perceptions of corporate responsibility influence policy preferences and the
effectiveness of corporate communication when agents have imperfect memory recall. Using …

We use randomized controlled trials in the US, UK, and Brazil to examine the causal effect of
public debt news on household inflation expectations. People tend to underestimate public …