货币幻觉重要吗?:评论

Does Money Illusion Matter?: Comment

American Economic Review · 2014
被引 33
人大 A+FT50ABS 4*

中文导读

通过实验复制Fehr和Tyran(2001)的设计,发现货币幻觉对名义惯性的影响是次要的,主要原因是决策任务的认知难度。

Abstract

This paper experimentally investigates whether money illusion generates substantial nominal inertia. Building on the design of Fehr and Tyran (2001), we find no evidence that agents choose high nominal payoffs over high real payoffs. However, participants do select prices associated with high nominal payoffs within a set of maximum real payoffs as a heuristic to simplify their decision task. The cognitive challenge of this task explains the majority of the magnitude of nominal inertia; money illusion exerts only a second-order effect. The duration of nominal inertia depends primarily on participants' best response functions, not the prevalence of money illusion.

货币幻觉名义惯性实验经济学决策启发式