Understanding people's views on fiscal policy (project)

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Understanding people's views on fiscal policy

Client/Funding Institution

Anniversary Fund of the Oesterreichische Nationalbank

Abstract

This project aims at providing new evidence on how people understand fiscal policy. Beliefs, perceptions and mindsets can have an impact on public attitudes towards fiscal policy. We will use state-of-the-art survey elements – including vignette-based experiments, information provision experiments and open-ended questions – to measure what’s on people’s minds when they think about fiscal policy. We will offer novel insights into how fiscal policy beliefs are formed and how information affects policy views and preferences across the general population and experts. By shedding light on the cognitive and normative frameworks people use when they think about fiscal policy, this project will help to evaluate economic theories, address empirical discrepancies in the literature, and inform evidence-based policy making.

Funded by the Anniversary Fund of the Oesterreichische Nationalbank (Project No. 19095).