Exposure to the covid-19 stock market crash and its effect on household expectations
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Exposure to the covid-19 stock market crash and its effect on household expectations. / Hanspal, Tobin; Weber, Annika; Wohlfart, Johannes.
I: Review of Economics and Statistics, Bind 103, Nr. 5, 02.12.2021, s. 994-1010.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Exposure to the covid-19 stock market crash and its effect on household expectations
AU - Hanspal, Tobin
AU - Weber, Annika
AU - Wohlfart, Johannes
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2020 The President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
PY - 2021/12/2
Y1 - 2021/12/2
N2 - We survey a representative sample of U.S. households to study how exposure to the COVID-19 stock market crash affects expectations and planned behavior. Wealth shocks are associated with upward adjustments of expectations about retirement age, desired working hours, and household debt but have only small effects on expected spending. We provide correlational and experimental evidence that beliefs about the duration of the stock market recovery shape households’ expectations about their own wealth and their planned investment decisions and labor market activity. Our findings shed light on the implications of household exposure to stock market crashes for expectation formation.
AB - We survey a representative sample of U.S. households to study how exposure to the COVID-19 stock market crash affects expectations and planned behavior. Wealth shocks are associated with upward adjustments of expectations about retirement age, desired working hours, and household debt but have only small effects on expected spending. We provide correlational and experimental evidence that beliefs about the duration of the stock market recovery shape households’ expectations about their own wealth and their planned investment decisions and labor market activity. Our findings shed light on the implications of household exposure to stock market crashes for expectation formation.
U2 - 10.1162/rest_a_01011
DO - 10.1162/rest_a_01011
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:85121003020
VL - 103
SP - 994
EP - 1010
JO - Review of Economics and Statistics
JF - Review of Economics and Statistics
SN - 0034-6535
IS - 5
ER -
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