Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/184991 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
Working Papers in Economics and Statistics No. 2018-13
Publisher: 
University of Innsbruck, Research Platform Empirical and Experimental Economics (eeecon), Innsbruck
Abstract: 
We use survey data to study how consumers assess the macroeconomic effects of structural oil market shocks on the U.S. economy using vector autoregressive models. To structurally decompose oil price changes, we impose sign restrictions on impulse responses. We find that the survey respondents' expectations are qualitatively in line with the actual developments in most cases. Nevertheless, survey respondents underestimate the adverse effects of oil market shocks in some cases. We also find that respondents expect the central bank to stabilize inflation as well as output and that expectations are consistent with a standard Taylor rule.
Subjects: 
Macroeconomic Expectations
Michigan Survey
Structural Vector Autoregression
Zero and Sign Restrictions
JEL: 
E00
E32
D84
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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