• Economic Outlook for Switzerland: Expectations Improved, but Pessimism Remains
• Current Economic Situation: Indicator Improved Slightly
• Inflation Expectations: Stability Expected
• Short-Term Interest Rates Expected…

• Economic Sentiments Slightly Decrease – Current Situation Dives into Negative Territory
• Economic Outlook for the CEE Region, Austria, and the Eurozone
• Czech Republic, Poland, and Slovakia: Current Situation…

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Many modern macroeconomic models either adopt a representative agent setup or introduce heterogeneity among individuals that leads only to trade in assets, while excluding the possibility that agents gain from…

Economists study the intergenerational transmission of skills and optimal human capital investment. Recent research has examined intergenerational associations of cognitive skills, trust and risk attitudes,…

• Economic Outlook for Switzerland: Expectations Deteriorate Further
• Current Economic Situation: Indicator Drops Markedly
• Inflation Expectations: Stability Expected
• (Nearly) Unanimous Forecasts for Short-Term…

Using experimental data of children and their mothers, this paper explores the intergenerational relationship of impatience. The child’s impatience stems from a delay of gratification experiment, the mother’s…