Why survey-based subjective expectations are meaningful and important

F D'Acunto, M Weber - Annual Review of Economics, 2024 - annualreviews.org
For decades, households' subjective expectations elicited via surveys have been
considered meaningless because they often differ substantially from the forecasts of …

Household financial transaction data

SR Baker, L Kueng - Annual Review of Economics, 2022 - annualreviews.org
The growth of the availability and use of detailed household financial transaction micro data
has dramatically expanded the ability of researchers to understand both household decision …

Algorithmic pricing and competition: Empirical evidence from the German retail gasoline market

S Assad, R Clark, D Ershov… - Journal of Political …, 2024 - journals.uchicago.edu
We provide the first empirical analysis of the relationship between algorithmic pricing (AP)
and competition by studying the impact of adoption in Germany's retail gasoline market …

Structural interpretation of vector autoregressions with incomplete identification: Revisiting the role of oil supply and demand shocks

C Baumeister, JD Hamilton - American Economic Review, 2019 - aeaweb.org
Traditional approaches to structural vector autoregressions (VARs) can be viewed as
special cases of Bayesian inference arising from very strong prior beliefs. These methods …

Oil price elasticities and oil price fluctuations

D Caldara, M Cavallo, M Iacoviello - Journal of Monetary Economics, 2019 - Elsevier
Studies identifying oil shocks using structural vector autoregressions (VARs) reach different
conclusions on the relative importance of supply and demand factors in explaining oil …

How are SNAP benefits spent? Evidence from a retail panel

J Hastings, JM Shapiro - American Economic Review, 2018 - aeaweb.org
We use a novel retail panel with detailed transaction records to study the effect of the
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) on household spending. We use …

Managing an energy shock: Fiscal and monetary policy

A Auclert, H Monnery, M Rognlie, L Straub - 2023 - nber.org
This paper studies the macroeconomic effects of energy price shocks in energy-importing
economies using a heterogeneous-agent New Keynesian model. When MPCs are …

How does consumption respond to news about inflation? Field evidence from a randomized control trial

O Coibion, D Georgarakos, Y Gorodnichenko… - American Economic …, 2023 - aeaweb.org
We implement a survey of Dutch households in which random subsets of respondents
receive information about inflation. The resulting exogenously generated variation in …

Lower oil prices and the US economy: Is this time different?

C Baumeister, L Kilian - Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, 2016 - muse.jhu.edu
We explore the effect of the sharp and sustained decline after June 2014 in the global price
of crude oil (and hence in the US price of gasoline) on US real GDP growth. Our analysis …

Energy shocks in the Euro area: disentangling the pass-through from oil and gas prices to inflation

C Casoli, M Manera, D Valenti - Journal of International Money and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract We develop a Bayesian Structural VAR model to study the relationship between
different energy shocks and inflation dynamics in Europe. Specifically, we model the …