Arbeitspapier
Institutions, experiences and inflation aversion
Are preferences exogenously given? Or do individual tastes and values evolve endogenously within a particular socio-economic environment? In this paper, we make use of a natural experiment to analyse the role of inflation experiences and institutions in the formation of individual inflation preferences. In particular, we exploit the division of post-war Germany to investigate to what extent the factual non-experience of inflation and 40 years of Communism have affected inflation preferences in East and West Germany. We find that historical experiences have a significant and long-lasting effect on people's preferences. Due to their specific political and economic background, East Germans are significantly more inflation averse than West Germans, even 20 years after reunification.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Diskussionspapier ; No. 143
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Institutions and the Macroeconomy
Price Level; Inflation; Deflation
Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies: Prices
- Thema
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endogenous preferences
inflation aversion
natural experiment
Germany
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Berlemann, Michael
Enkelmann, Sören
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Helmut-Schmidt-Universität - Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg, Fächergruppe Volkswirtschaftslehre
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Hamburg
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2014
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.12.4549, 11:42 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Berlemann, Michael
- Enkelmann, Sören
- Helmut-Schmidt-Universität - Universität der Bundeswehr Hamburg, Fächergruppe Volkswirtschaftslehre
Entstanden
- 2014