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Household Income Expectations: The Role of Shocks and Aggregate Conditions

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We conduct an empirical investigation to examine how income shocks and aggregate conditions influence income expectations, expectation uncertainty and expectation errors. We use data from a large longitudinal Dutch survey collecting detailed information on household income expectations. Our results show that income shocks, much more than aggregate conditions, induce a revision in income expectations across the entire spectrum of the income distribution. This expectation revision is consistent with an extrapolative behavior. We also observe that positive income shocks lead to an increase of expectation uncertainty. Our results partly confirm overreaction of respondents to income shocks, particularly for negative income shocks and high-income respondents. The above overall findings vary conditional on the position in the income distribution. This evidence may depend on different income processes and different degrees of awareness regarding the impact of income shocks and aggregate conditions.

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  • Bucciol, Alessandro & Easaw, Joshy & Trucchi, Serena, 2024. "Household Income Expectations: The Role of Shocks and Aggregate Conditions," Cardiff Economics Working Papers E2024/7, Cardiff University, Cardiff Business School, Economics Section.
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    Keywords

    Income expectations; Expectation uncertainty; Expectation error; Income shocks; Aggregate conditions.;
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    JEL classification:

    • D84 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Expectations; Speculations
    • G50 - Financial Economics - - Household Finance - - - General

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