Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I. Measuring expectations through surveys
7. 1 How Should We Measure Economic Expectations? 13
8. 2 What Makes a Good Survey of Expectations? 29
9. 3 What Have We Learned from Existing Surveys of Expectations? 52
10. 4 Mapping Survey Expectations into Theory 70
11. Part II. Creating Exogenous Variation in Expectations
12. 5 Designing Information Treatments 91
13. 6 Quantifying and Understanding the Effects of Information Treatments on Expectations 103
14. 7 What Have Information Treatments Taught Us about Policy Communication? 118
15. 8 Mapping Information Treatments into Theories of Learning 133
16. Part III. Characterizing the Effects of Subjective Expectations on Economic Decisions
17. 9 Measuring Decisions and Outcomes 155
18. 10 Quantifying the Effects of Beliefs on Decisions 167
19. 11 Alternative and Complementary Approaches to RCTs 187
20. 12 Mapping Expectational Pass-throughs to Theory and Applications 200
21. Part IV. Applications
22. 13 How Does Economic Uncertainty Affect the Decisions of Households and Firms? 221
23. 14 How Do Expectations Affect Individual Portfolio Decisions? 237
24. 15 How Do Beliefs about Peers Shape Decisions? 256
25. 16 Expected Home Prices and Household Decisions 275
26. Conclusion 292
27. References 299
28. Index 317