The behavioral economics of inflation expectations : macroeconomics meets psychology

As one of the first texts to take a behavioral approach to macroeconomic expectations, this book introduces a new way of doing economics. Rötheli uses cognitive psychology in a bottom-up method of modeling macroeconomic expectations. His research is based on laboratory experiments and historical data, which he extends to real-world situations. Pattern extrapolation is shown to be the key to understanding expectations of inflation and income. The quantitative model of expectations is used to analyze the course of inflation and nominal interest rates in a range of countries and historical periods. The model of expected income is applied to the analysis of business cycle phenomena such as the great recession in the United States. Data and spreadsheets are provided for readers to do their own computations of macroeconomic expectations. This book offers new perspectives in many areas of macro and financial economics. As one of the first texts to take a behavioral approach to macroeconomic expectations, this book introduces a new way of doing economics. Roetheli uses cognitive psychology in a bottom-up method of modeling macroeconomic expectations. His research is based on laboratory experiments and historical data, which he extends to real-world situations. Pattern extrapolation is shown to be the key to understanding expectations of inflation and income. The quantitative model of expectations is used to analyze the course of inflation and nominal interest rates in a range of countries and historical periods. The model of expected income is applied to the analysis of business cycle phenomena such as the great recession in the United States. Data and spreadsheets are provided for readers to do their own computations of macroeconomic expectations. This book offers new perspectives in many areas of macro and financial economics Copyright_page Dedication Contents Figures Tables Preface 1 Patterns and Expectations 2 Extrapolation and Expectations 3 Eliciting Expectations under Laboratory Conditions 4 Features of the Laboratory Data 5 Similarity Matching and Scaling the Experimental Data 6 Pattern Extrapolation and Expectations Measured by Consumer Surveys 7 Heterogeneity and Uncertainty of Inflation Expectations 8 Inflation Dynamics 9 Explaining the Course of Interest Rates 10 Generalizing the Pattern-Based Approach 11 A Detour to Income Expectations 12 The Fisher Effect in Historical Times 13 Expectations of High Inflation 14 The Fisher Effect in Asian Economies 15 The Fisher Effect in African Economies 16 Estimates of Expected Inflation for Major Economies 17 Estimates of Expected Real Interest Rates for Major Epilogue References Index Patterns and expectations -- Extrapolation and expectations -- Eliciting expectations under laboratory conditions -- Features of the laboratory data -- Similarity matching and scaling the experimental data -- Pattern extrapolation and expectations measured by consumer surveys -- Heterogeneity and uncertainty of inflation expectations -- Inflation dynamics -- Explaining the course of interest rates -- Generalizing the pattern-based approach -- A detour to income expectations -- The Fisher effect in historical times -- Expectations of high inflation -- The Fisher effect in Asian economies -- The Fisher effect in African economies -- Estimates of expected inflation for major economies -- Estimates of expected real interest rates for major economies "The notion that expectations play a key role in economic decision making is a very old one. Over the past 100 years, major advances in the application of this insight in the formulation of economic models have been made in various subfields of economics. The concept of extrapolation, the idea that past observations of a series are the basis for making projections into the future, was present from the start of the modeling of dynamic economic processes"-- Proporcionado por el editor "The notion that expectations play a key role in economic decision making is a very old one. Over the past 100 years, major advances in the application of this insight in the formulation of economic models have been made in various subfields of economics. The concept of extrapolation, the idea that past observations of a series are the basis for making projections into the future, was present from the start of the modeling of dynamic economic processes"-- Provided by publisher