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The Price Is Right: Updating Inflation Expectations in a Randomized Price Information Experiment
- O. Armantier, S. Nelson, G. Topa, Wilbert van der Klaauw, Basit Zafar
- Economics
- Review of Economics and Statistics
- 1 July 2016
Using a unique, randomized information experiment embedded in a survey, this paper investigates how consumers’ inflation expectations respond to new information. We find that respondents, on average,… Expand
Inflation Expectations and Behavior: Do Survey Respondents Act on Their Beliefs?
- O. Armantier, W. Bruine de Bruin, G. Topa, Wilbert van der Klaauw, Basit Zafar
- Economics
- 1 May 2015
We compare the inflation expectations reported by consumers in a survey with their behavior in a financially incentivized investment experiment. The survey is found to be informative in the sense… Expand
Measuring Inflation Expectations
- O. Armantier, W. B. D. Bruin, S. Potter, G. Topa, W. V. D. Klaauw, Basit Zafar
- Economics
- 2 August 2013
To conduct monetary policy, central banks around the world increasingly rely on measures of public inflation expectations. In this article, we review findings from an ongoing initiative at the… Expand
Domestic Airline Alliances and Consumer Welfare
- O. Armantier, O. Richard
- Economics
- 1 September 2008
This article investigates the consumer welfare consequences of the recent code-share agreement between Continental Airlines and Northwest Airlines. We develop a discrete choice model based on… Expand
Estimation and comparison of treasury auction formats when bidders are asymmetric
- O. Armantier, Erwann Sbai
- Economics
- 1 September 2006
The structural parameters of a share-auction model accounting for asymmetries across bidders, as well as supply uncertainty, are estimated with a sample of French Treasury auctions. We find evidence… Expand
Stigma in Financial Markets Evidence from liquidity auctions and discount window borrowing during the crisis
- O. Armantier, E. Ghysels, A. Sarkar, J. Shrader
- Business
- 2011
While the perception of stigma attached to borrowing from the discount window complicates the Fed's efforts to help banks in urgent need for funds during times of crisis, there exists little evidence… Expand
Expectations of Inflation: The Role of Demographic Variables, Expectation Formation, and Financial Literacy
- W. B. D. Bruin, Wilbert Vanderklaauw, J. Downs, B. Fischhoff, G. Topa, O. Armantier
- Economics
- 1 June 2010
When financial decisions have consequences beyond the immediate future, individuals' economic success may depend on their ability to forecast the rate of inflation. Higher inflation expectations have… Expand
A controlled field experiment on corruption
- O. Armantier, A. Boly
- Economics
- 1 December 2011
This paper reports on a controlled field experiment on corruption designed to address two important issues: the experimenter's scrutiny and the unobservability of corruption. In the experiment, a… Expand
Eliciting beliefs: Proper scoring rules, incentives, stakes and hedging
- O. Armantier, Nicolas Treich
- Economics
- 1 August 2013
Proper Scoring Rules (PSRs) are popular incentivized mechanisms to elicit an agent's beliefs. This paper combines theory and experiment to characterize how PSRs bias reported beliefs when (i) the PSR… Expand
Framing of Incentives and Effort Provision
- O. Armantier, A. Boly
- Economics
- 1 August 2015
A prospect theory model combining loss aversion and diminishing sensitivity predicts that the link between incentives framing and effort is ambiguous: small penalties yield higher effort, but… Expand