Arbeitspapier
Does Policy Communication during COVID-19 Work?
Using a large-scale survey of U.S. households during the Covid-19 pandemic, we study how new information about fiscal and monetary policy responses to the crisis affects households' expectations. We provide random subsets of participants in the Nielsen Homescan panel with different combinations of information about the severity of the pandemic, recent actions by the Federal Reserve, stimulus measures, as well as recommendations from health officials. This experiment allows us to assess to what extent these policy announcements alter the beliefs and spending plans of households. In short, they do not, contrary to the powerful effects they have in standard macroeconomic models.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 13355
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Price Level; Inflation; Deflation
Survey Methods; Sampling Methods
Expectations; Speculations
Retirement; Retirement Policies
- Thema
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subjective expectations
fiscal policy
monetary policy
COVID-19
surveys
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Coibion, Olivier
Gorodnichenko, Yuriy
Weber, Michael
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
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Bonn
- (wann)
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2020
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Coibion, Olivier
- Gorodnichenko, Yuriy
- Weber, Michael
- Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
Entstanden
- 2020