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| Title: | | Identification of interaction effects in survey expectations: A cautionary note  |
| Authors: | | Alfarano, Simone Milaković, Mishael |
| Issue Date: | | 2010 |
| Series/Report no.: | | BERG working paper series on government and growth 75 |
| Abstract: | | A growing body of literature reports evidence of social interaction effects in survey expectations. In this note, we argue that evidence in favor of social interaction effects should be treated with caution, or could even be spurious. Utilizing a parsimonious stochastic model of expectation formation and dynamics, we show that the existing sample sizes of survey expectations are about two orders of magnitude too small to reasonably distinguish between noise and interaction effects. Moreover, we argue that the problem is compounded by the fact that highly correlated responses among agents might not be caused by interaction effects at all, but instead by model-consistent beliefs. Ultimately, these results suggest that existing survey data cannot facilitate our understanding of the process of expectations formation. |
| Subjects: | | Survey expectations model-consistent beliefs social interaction networks. |
| JEL: | | D84 D85 C83 |
| ISBN: | | 978-3-931052-83-6 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | BERG Working Paper Series, Universität Bamberg
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