Expectations matter : the new causal macroeconomics of surveys and experiments /
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2026]
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I: Measuring Expectations Through Surveys
- 1. How Should We Measure Economic Expectations?
- 2. What Makes a Good Survey of Expectations?
- 3. What Have We Learned from Existing Surveys of Expectations?
- 4. Mapping Survey Expectations into Theory
- Part II: Creating Exogenous Variation in Expectations
- 5. Designing Information Treatments
- 6. Quantifying and Understanding the Effects of Information Treatments on Expectations
- 7. What Have Information Treatments Taught Us about Policy Communication?
- 8. Mapping Information Treatments into Theories of Learning
- Part III: Characterizing the Effects of Subjective Expectations on Economic Decisions
- 9. Measuring Decisions and Outcomes
- 10. Quantifying the Effects of Beliefs on Decisions
- 11. Alternative and Complementary Approaches to RCTs
- 12. Mapping Expectational Pass-throughs to Theory and Applications
- Part IV: Applications
- 13. How Does Economic Uncertainty Affect the Decisions of Households and Firms?
- 14. How Do Expectations Affect Individual Portfolio Decisions?
- 15. How Do Beliefs about Peers Shape Decisions?
- 16. Expected Home Prices and Household Decisions
- Conclusion: Where Do We Go from Here?
- References
- Index