• Can Firms see into the Future? Survey evidence from Germany 

      Massenot, Baptiste; Pettinicchi, Yuri (2017-11-03)
      This paper presents new evidence on the expectation formation process of firms from a survey of the German manufacturing sector. It focuses on the expectation about their future business conditions, which enters the widely ...
    • Can Households See into the Future? Survey Evidence from the Netherlands 

      Massenot, Baptiste; Pettinicchi, Yuri (2018-07-14)
      This paper presents new evidence on the expectation formation process from a Dutch household survey. Households become too optimistic about their future income after their income has improved, consistent with the ...
    • Financial education, literacy and investment attitudes 

      Brugiavini, Agar; Cavapozzi, Danilo; Padula, Mario; Pettinicchi, Yuri (2015-05-01)
      Based on a sample of university students, we provide field and laboratory evidence that a small scale training intervention has both a statistically and economically significant effect on subjective and objective assessments ...
    • Job Loss Expectations, Durable Consumption and Household Finances: Evidence from Linked Survey Data 

      Pettinicchi, Yuri; Vellekoop, Nathanael (2019-03-01)
      Job security is important for durable consumption and household savings. Using surveys, workers express a probability that they will lose their job in the next 12 months. In order to assess the empirical content of these ...