{"title":"How to interpret consumer confidence shocks? State-level evidence","authors":"Sangyup Choi , Jaehun Jeong , Donghoon Yoo","doi":"10.1016/j.econlet.2024.111985","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Using novel quarterly data of 29 U.S. states from 2005:I to 2015:IV, we revisit the link between consumer confidence and economic activity. We find that an innovation in consumer confidence is followed by a significant and persistent increase in consumption and output but a temporary decline in inflation. These findings suggest that the supply-side (news) interpretation of consumer confidence receives more empirical support than the demand-side (animal spirit) interpretation in our sample.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":11468,"journal":{"name":"Economics Letters","volume":"244 ","pages":"Article 111985"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1000,"publicationDate":"2024-09-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Economics Letters","FirstCategoryId":"96","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165176524004695","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"ECONOMICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Using novel quarterly data of 29 U.S. states from 2005:I to 2015:IV, we revisit the link between consumer confidence and economic activity. We find that an innovation in consumer confidence is followed by a significant and persistent increase in consumption and output but a temporary decline in inflation. These findings suggest that the supply-side (news) interpretation of consumer confidence receives more empirical support than the demand-side (animal spirit) interpretation in our sample.
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