Learning from potentially-biased statistics: Household inflation perceptions and expectations in Argentina

When forming expectations, households may be influenced by perceived bias in the information they receive. In this paper, we study how individuals learn from potentially biased statistics using data from both a natural experiment and a survey experiment during a period (2007-15) when the government...

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Main Authors: Cavallo, Alberto F. (Contributor), Cruces, Guillermo (Author), Perez-Truglia, Ricardo (Author)
Other Authors: Sloan School of Management (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Brookings Institution Press, 2017-01-09T16:57:10Z.
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