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Impact of Behavioural Attention on the Households Foreign Currency Savings as a Response to the External Macroeconomic Shocks

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  • Vilma Deltuvaitė
  • Svatopluk Kapounek
  • Petr Koráb

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This paper investigates the impact of behavioural attention on the households' foreign currency savings as a response to the external macroeconomic shocks. The information that the households acquire via different communication channels is expected to influence their decisions regarding their savings' allocation into different currencies. This study has applied the fundamental macroeconomic models by including individuals' attention to the specific risks and search interest in specific keywords on Google in order to assess the impact of acquired information and its communication channel on the households' foreign currency savings. We employed a two-level mixed effects model including macroeconomic fundamentals and individuals' attention to the information determinants. We solved a problem of a long list of potential explanatory variables (keywords) by employing the Bayesian Model Averaging. This study assumes that households are more sensitive to the macroeconomic shocks (factors) if they search simultaneously for infor-mation on Google about these factors or specific related risks. The results emphasize the role behavioural attention during financial turmoil and economic downturn periods, especially in the environment of very low interest rates.

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  • Vilma Deltuvaitė & Svatopluk Kapounek & Petr Koráb, 2019. "Impact of Behavioural Attention on the Households Foreign Currency Savings as a Response to the External Macroeconomic Shocks," Prague Economic Papers, Prague University of Economics and Business, vol. 2019(2), pages 155-177.
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    DOI: 10.18267/j.pep.690
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    Keywords

    foreign exchange; macroeconomic shocks; households; behavioural attention; Google Trends; Bayesian Model Averaging;
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    JEL classification:

    • C11 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods and Methodology: General - - - Bayesian Analysis: General
    • C23 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models
    • D14 - Microeconomics - - Household Behavior - - - Household Saving; Personal Finance
    • F31 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - Foreign Exchange
    • F62 - International Economics - - Economic Impacts of Globalization - - - Macroeconomic Impacts
    • G11 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Portfolio Choice; Investment Decisions

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