Media | Michael Weber

Media Mentions

Surcharges Are Suddenly Everywhere—And Grumpy Americans Are Paying Up

Wall Street Journal

4/13/2026
Why Monetary Policy Works Through Supply Chains, Not Just Interest Rates

Daniels Insight Blog

1/20/2026
Level-Setting Investors on Investing, Inflation Expectations and Over-Optimism

Daniels Insight Blog

11/18/2025
Fed's Deepest Tariff Fear Is a Price Shock That Won’t Fade Away

Bloomberg

4/12/2025
Wahrgenommene und tatsächliche Inflation

N-TV

4/1/2025
Alltag prägt Inflationserwartungen privater Haushalte

Deutsche Bundesbank

3/28/2025
Unhedged: Poor consumer sentiment is still just talk

Financial Times

3/27/2025
Everyone misunderstands Jay Powell

Financial Times

3/25/2025
A New Tool for Predicting Economic Growth

Chicago Booth Review

3/11/2025
Rising Price Expectations Could Prompt Fed Hike

Market News International

2/28/2025
The Mood of the American Consumer is Souring

Wall Street Journal

2/7/2025
High Inflation Sows Debate About New Fed Playbook for Tariffs

New York Times

1/31/2025
Aktien schützen doch nicht vor Inflation

Handelsblatt

7/31/2024
Economists are Paying more Attention to our Inflation Fears

Financial Times

7/12/2024
Prices fell in June for the first time since the start of the pandemic

CNN Business

7/11/2024
AI Can Discover Corporate Policy Changes in Earnings Calls

Chicago Booth Review

5/28/2024
Fed's Inflation Battle Hinges on Convincing Americans Price Hikes Are Done

Bloomberg

1/28/2024
Why the concept of 'loss aversion' could help explain Biden's weak economic numbers

Yahoo Finance

11/12/2023
Vom Nutzen ökonomischer Experimente

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

11/3/2023
Verbraucher unterschätzen positive Effekte der Inflation

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

11/3/2023
Are women more worried about inflation than men?

Financial Times

8/16/2023
ChatGPT Finds Capex Plans in Earnings Calls

CFO

8/11/2023
Meet The Crypto `Gals' Of The 2023 Forbes 50 Over 50

Forbes

8/1/2023
You'd never play the lottery but are all-in on crypto. What's the difference?

MarketWatch

6/28/2023
The Fed Rate Pause Won't End Mortgage Misery

Wall Street Journal

6/14/2023
Crypto's Quiet Gains: Ownership Climbs Despite Crash in Prices

Wall Street Journal

6/9/2023
How central banks left the West stuck in “a world of second best”

The Telegraph

4/22/2023
Life Is So Expensive, People Are Nostalgic for 2021

Wall Street Journal

3/16/2023
Cognitive abilities affect consumers' inflation expectations and consumption plans

Bank of Finland Blog

12/13/2022
Will Americans hurt by interest rate “whiplash” ever break free from inflation's grasp?

USA Today

9/30/2022
Fed Pays Too Much Heed to 500 Random Opinions

Washington Post

6/21/2022
Climate Change and Individual Behavior

BFI

5/23/2022
Der Milchpreis und die Inflation

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

5/23/2022
What Higher Interest Rates Could Mean for Jobs

New York Times

5/19/2022
Are we trusting the Bank?

City AM

5/13/2022
Greed or good business? A look at food company profits over the past year

Minneapolis Star Tribune

4/9/2022
Ensuring orderly inflation expectations

Business World

4/7/2022
Americans Say High Prices Are Hitting the Things They Need to Get By

The Journalist's Resource

3/9/2022
People trust inflation forecasts from the Fed more than traditional news stories about those forecasts

The Journalist's Resource

2/18/2022
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/02/13/low-income-high-inflation-inequality/

Washington Post

2/13/2022
Burritos, inflation and privilege: As food costs rise in Chicago, a social media uproar highlights who really bears the brunt

Chicago Tribune

1/25/2022
Inflation hits 7.5% in Midwest; surging consumer prices ‘disastrous’

Chicago Tribune

1/19/2022
How Fed policy can narrow racial divides

Axios

1/13/2022
L'inflation doit nous inquieter... mais pas pour les raisons auxquelles vous pensez

Atlantico

1/5/2022
German Consumption-Tax Cut Boosted Spending during Pandemic

NBER Digest

1/1/2022
The Next Year in Politics Could Somehow Be Even Uglier

The Daily Beast

12/31/2021
Unemployment down, consumer prices up: Experts paint a picture of the 2022 economy

Chicago Tribune

12/11/2021
Eine befristete Mehrwertsteuersenkung als wirksame unkonventionelle Fiskalpolitik

Ökonomenstimme

12/11/2021
Money talks: Why banks must learn to communicate with ordinary people

Business Impact Magazine

11/17/2021
Internationales Forscherteam: Deutsche Mehrwertsteuer-Senkung während der Corona-Krise hat gewirkt

Business Insider

11/2/2021
Mehrwertsteuersenkung viel wichtiger als bislang gedacht

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

11/2/2021
A Temporary VAT Cut as Unconventional Fiscal Policy

BFI

10/27/2021
Human Frictions in the Transmission of Economic Policy

SUERF

10/1/2021
Wenn die schlauesten Koepfe auswandern

tagesschau.de

10/11/2021
The value of racial and gender diversity at the Federal Reserve

Equitablegrowth

9/16/2021
A more diverse Fed may be more trusted

Chicago Booth Review

9/8/2021
Rising prices: Long-term inflation on the horizon or pandemic economy recalibration? Chicago experts weigh in

Chicago Tribune

9/2/2021
Diverse Policy Committees Can Reach Underrepresented Groups

Becker Friedman Institute

8/9/2021
Who is right about inflation?

Chicago Booth Review

8/9/2021
How the Federal Reserve can really help America

Yahoo Finance

7/19/2021
A temporary increase in inflation is not a long-run threat to U.S. economic growth and prosperity

Equitable Growth

7/9/2021
Hot US Inflation could stir once Sleepy Household Expectations

Bloomberg

6/13/2021
What is inflation? Hint: It's not the 12% increase in rental-car prices last month

MarketWatch

6/11/2021
Fed's Taper Talk Is Pre-Emptive Strike Against Inflation Fears

Bloomberg

5/29/2021
Gender roles influence economic expectations

Cosmos

5/25/2021
Wenn Noah und Michael das Gleiche tun

FAZit Blog

5/24/2021
Inflation is back. How high and how long will prices go up?

LA Times

5/13/2021
The Fed's Inflation Blind Spot: Already-Surging Grocery and Housing Prices

Barron's

4/26/2021
Ideas Farm: Why we're all too worried about inflation

Investors' Chronicle

3/25/2021
With pandemic-weary consumers ready to spend, 'the roaring 20s and celebratory times ahead may be very real'

Chicago Tribune

2/29/2021
Will $1,400 checks stimulate the economy? No, and here's why not, say three prominent economists

Fortune

2/22/2021
Future Government Borrowing Plans Can Raise Inflation Expectations

WSJ Pro Central Banking

2/22/2021
A third stimulus check may be coming. Here's how some Chicagoans spent the first two.

Chicago Tribune

2/5/2021
Macroeconomics textbook

Olivier Blanchard

1/19/2021
Those $2,000 Checks Won't Boost the Economy

Wallstreet Journal

1/15/2021
What Will The Stimulus Stimulate?

American Institute for Economic Research

12/31/2020
Stimulus Money Should Have Gone to the Jobless, Economists Say

New York Times

12/30/2020
Should You Retire Now? Millions Fed Up Working Under Pandemic Conditions Have

Forbes

12/10/2020
The downfall (and possible salvation) of expertise

Chicago Booth Review

11/30/2020
Die Angst vor Inflation nimmt offenbar wieder ab

Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

11/5/2020
Die Krise beschleunigt die finanzielle Spaltung der deutschen Gesellschaft

Welt

11/5/2020
Disappointed voters will slow the economic recovery

Houston Chronicle

11/4/2020
Corona-Krise trifft Einkommen vieler Menschen

Sueddeutsche Zeitung

11/4/2020
Corona-Pandemie nagt am Einkommen der Haushalte

Handelsblatt

11/4/2020
Germans React to Stimulus With Even More Gloom, Bundesbank Says

Bloomberg

11/4/2020
Data: US voters' election expectations

Economics Observatory

11/3/2020
Democrats and Republicans are confident their candidate will win — and that could affect consumer spending after the election

Marketwatch

11/3/2020
What you believe depends on where you stand, apparently

Grumpy Economist

10/28/2020
Data Shows How Stimulus Checks Helped Americans Meet Basic Needs

Nasdaq

10/17/2020
This is How Americans Spent Their Stimulus Money

MSN

10/13/2020
COVID 'stimulus' less than stimulating

One Illinois

10/12/2020
Trump, Congress pursue second round of $1,200 stimulus checks in effort to revive huge federal aid program

Washington Post

10/9/2020
Most Stimulus Payments Were Saved or Applied to Debt

NBER Digest

10/1/2020
Is the economy running fast or slow? It depends where you look

The Christian Science Monitor

9/11/2020
Turns Out Those Stimulus Checks May Not Have Stimulated Much

Spotlight on Freedom

9/3/2020
How did Americans use their coronavirus stimulus cheques?

Economist

9/2/2020
US needs more targeted stimulus: NBER's Weber

MNI International

8/21/2020
Americans have little confidence in COVID-19 stimulus plans

Chicago Booth Review

8/20/2020
Most People Saved or Paid Down Debt With Their CARES Act Stimulus Check

Freedom Works Blog

8/18/2020
Consumers split on COVID-19 lasting 1 or 2 years - Cleveland Fed

Seeking Alpha

7/15/2020
Inflation Expectations Are Wrong, Which Is Good

The Wall Street Journal

7/14/2020
Thinking Out of the Box: “Unconventional” Fiscal Policies for Economic Recovery After Covid-19

The Street

6/30/2020
A Pandemic Problem for Older Workers: Will They Have to Retire Sooner?

New York Times

6/26/2020
Older Workers May Be Retiring Early Because of the Coronavirus

AARP

6/18/2020
US workers face an unequal future when virus recedes

Agence France-Presse

5/30/2020
In this COVID climate, should I just retire?

MarketWatch

5/27/2020
The President of the United States is rarely reelected in a recession

Een Vandaag

5/21/2020
Forget ageism, older workers now have to survive the coronavirus economy

Dallas Morning News

5/3/2020
Is the Unemployment Rate a Good Measure of People Currently Out of Work?

Chicago Fed Insights

5/5/2020
Coronavirus crisis could bring new wave of early retirement: report

The Hill

5/1/2020
COVID-19 crisis sparks 'early retirement' wave

Marketwatch

4/30/2020
The Many New Indicators of an Epic Job Collapse

Bloomberg

4/30/2020
Trump faces the risk of a coronavirus cliff

Politico

4/28/2020
Why the unemployment rate might not skyrocket

Politico

4/24/2020
The coronavirus has caused a wave of early retirement

Yahoo Money

4/24/2020
Covid-19 is pushing Americans into early retirement

Quartz

4/23/2020
Doing Home Repairs During Coronavirus? Be Strategic About How You Pay for Them

wirecutter

4/21/2020
New research suggests the US unemployment rate is about to become useless

Quartz

4/15/2020
Sneak Preview of COVID-19 Impact on U.S. Job Market

The Unassuming Economist

4/14/2020
These Apps are Changing the Way we Talk about Money

CNN Business

2/18/2020
How Grocery Prices Influence Consumers' Inflation Expectations

NBER Digest

12/1/2019
Why central banks need to change their message

Chicago Booth Review

11/26/2019
Inflationary Consumer Mirage

Obserwator Finansowy

12/12/2019
The Real Problem Central Bankers Face: The Rest of Us

WSJ

10/8/2019
Talking to people about prices: can the central bank manage inflation expectations

Forbes.ru

10/8/2019
Peers Can Change Financial Behavior

ETF.com

4/12/2019
Peer Pressure Can Improve Your Financial Life, Study Finds

Wall Street Journal

3/11/2019
FedSpeak Might Not Have Much Effects on Public's Inflation Expectation

Econreporter

2/14/2019
Clever and inflation is more visible

Kommersant

1/31/2019
How Monetary Policy Communications Affect Household Inflation Expectations

WSJ Pro Central Banking

1/29/2019
Wie Notenbanken weltweit mit neuen Kommunikationskanälen experimentieren

Handelsblatt

1/21/2019
Was Mario Draghi von Donald Trump lernen kann

Wirtschaftswoche

12/19/2018
Die Fed ermöglicht Überrenditen

Börsenzeitung

1/10/2019
Equity values and credit spreads: the inflation effect

Systemic Risk and Systematic Value

12/29/2018
How Observing Punishment Affects Potential Offenders: A China Study

China Business Knowledge

12/13/2018
Cash Flow Duration and the Term Structure of Equity Returns

CFA Digest

12/6/2018
Auffällige Kursmuster vor dem Fed-Entscheid

Finanz und Wirtschaft

11/8/2018
Jednani Fedu? Akcie udelaji tohle...

Roklen24

9/26/2018
So können Anleger mit der US-Notenbank Geld verdienen

Manager Magazin

9/25/2018
Market Anticipation of FOMC Policy “Shocks”

NBER Digest

9/4/2018
Facing The Fed With Dividends And Options

Forbes

7/20/2018
Dummköpfe erwarten eher eine hohe Inflation als Schlaue

FAZIT-das Wirtschaftsblog

6/20/2018
The Information Content of Dividends: Safer Profits, Not Higher Profits

Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation

12/24/2017
Monetary Momentum

alpha architect

11/16/2017
GE's Dividend Cut Doesn't Mean What You Think

The Wall Street Journal

11/13/2017
Anti-Semitism continues to hurt German pocketbooks

Journalist's Resource, Harvard Kennedy School

9/22/2017
How pricing strategy can affect a company’s indebtedness

Chicago Booth Review

4/3/2017
How sales taxes could boost economic growth

Chicago Booth Review

2/15/2017
Policy rates and equity returns: the “slope factor”

Systemic Risk and Systematic Value

11/26/2016
Unconventional Fiscal Policy and Consumption Spending

NBER Digest

10/4/2016
NBER Paper studies Effect of Unconventional Fiscal Policy on Consumption

WSJ Pro Central Banking

9/23/2016
Prices are sticky – but does it matter?

AEA Research Highlight

3/7/2016
Why intolerance is bad for business

Capital Ideas

2/26/2016
Swedroe: Arbitrage Limits Cause Mispricing

ETF.com

2/3/2016
Great Academic Research is Bursting at the Seams

alpha architect

12/29/2015
Der verblüffende Effekt von Steuererhöhungen

Die Welt

10/23/2015
Steigende Inflationserwartungen stimulieren Konsum

Ökonomenstimme

7/3/2015
Kiut a gazdasagi depressziobol: Inflációs várakozások es lakossági fogyasztás

Penzugyi Szemle

6/11/2015
Grand Central: The Untaper Tantrum

WSJ Real Time Economics Blog

6/10/2015
Un aumento annunciato dell'Iva per spingere i consumi?

Il Fatto Quotidiano

6/10/2015
Un aumento annunciato dell’Iva per spingere i consumi?

LaVoce

6/9/2015
Inflation Expectations Spur Consumption Expenditure

Econbrowser

6/1/2015
Some Consumers Don’t Take the Bait When Economists Project Inflation

MainStreet.com

5/12/2015
Interview with Michael Weber Professor University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Bloomberg Surveillance

4/21/2015
Daily data: Jewish persecution created wealth-sucking fear of investing

Capital Ideas Blog

3/11/2015
Kalau mau tajir jangan benci Yahudi

Al Balad

2/12/2015
Antisemitism missgynnar tillväxt och välstånd

Världen idag

10/29/2014
Kalau ingin kaya jangan musuhi Yahudi

Merdeka

10/27/2014
Want to get rich? Don't be an anti-Semite

Haaretz

10/26/2014
Those who live in more anti-Semitic areas invest less in the stock market

The Marker

10/26/2014
Researchers conclude that Antisemitism has negative impact on the economy

NEWS ru

10/26/2014
Wo man Juden hasst, da hasst man auch Aktien

Die Welt

10/25/2014
Study Probes German Financial Distrust Today

Tablet Magazine

10/22/2014
Dove perseguitavano gli ebrei non cresce più la finanza

La Stampa

10/21/2014
Does Anti-Semitism Make You Poor?

The American Interest

10/20/2014
A mult antiszemitizmusa a mai napig gazdasagi hatranyt okoz nemetorszagban

444 HU

10/19/2014
Another cost of bigotry

The Economist

10/18/2014
Antisemitismus vernichtet Wohlstand

ZU Daily

6/24/2014
Antisemitismus vernichtet Wohlstand

Ökonomenstimme

3/18/2014
Enforced flexibility

The Economist - Free Exchange

11/21/2013
How Urgent Is the Need for a Higher Inflation Target?

Washington Center for Equitable Growth

11/18/2013
Are Sticky Prices Costly? Evidence From The Stock Market

Economist's View

10/25/2013
We really do need a 4%/Year Inflation Target

DeLong

5/26/2013
Market-Return Research Wins 2013 AQR Insight Award

The Wall Street Journal

5/20/2013
Market-Return Research Wins 2013 AQR Insight Award

Reuters

5/20/2013
Should We Care about Sticky Prices?

Econbrowser

4/4/2013

Policy Mentions

The Psychology of Inflation, Anna Breman

Danske Bank

12/4/2024
Communication and Monetary Policy, Christine Lagarde

Distinguished Speakers Seminar

4/9/2023
Comments on “Managing Disinflations”, Loretta J. Mester

US Monetary Policy Forum

2/24/2023
A Steady Anchor in a Stormy Sea, John C. Williams

New York Fed

11/9/2022
Gender Economics, Joachim Nagel

Deutsche Bundesbank

11/18/2022
Gender Economics, Sabine Mauderer

Deutsche Bundesbank

11/4/2022
Steering Toward Sustainable Growth, Mary C. Daly

San Francisco Fed

4/22/2022
Speech by Christine Lagarde, President of the ECB, at “The ECB and Its Watchers XXII” conference

ECB

3/17/2022
Lectio Magistralis by Christine Lagarde, President of the ECB

ECB

11/29/2021
Letter from the ECB President to Mr Gunnar Beck

ECB

4/23/2021
Inflation dynamics during a pandemic

ECB

4/1/2021
Unconventional fiscal and monetary policy at the zero lower bound

ECB

2/26/2021
COVID-19 and monetary policy: Reinforcing prevailing challenges

ECB

11/24/2020
COVID-19: Household Debt During the Pandemic

Congressional Research Service

10/22/2020
The Effects of Pandemic-Related Legislation on Output

Congressional Budget Office

9/20/2020
Opening Remarks At The Webinar On Monetary Policy Tools And Their Impact On The Macroeconomy

Speech by Bank of Finland Governor Rehn

9/12/2020
The imperative for public engagement

Speech by Bank of Canada Governor Macklem

8/27/2020
Perceived inflation and reality: understanding the difference

Speech by Bank of Canada Deputy Governor Macklem

8/25/2020
Cost-Benefit Analysis Executive Summary

Victoria Parliament Australia

8/20/2020
Evaluating the Effects of the Economic Response to COVID-19

The Council of Economic Advisers

8/1/2020
Change and continuity

Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann, Speech delivered at Deutsche Börse's New Year’s reception

2/3/2020
Transformation of central banking and monetary policy in Europe

Bank of Finland Governor Olli Rehn, Current Trends on European Politics

1/30/2020
How the monetary policy strategy review relates to IQ, reggae and throwing Frisbee

Bank of Finland Board Member Tuomas Välimäki: Monetary economics and reality

11/21/2019
Communication, expectations and monetary policy

Vice-President de Guindos at the ECB policy panel

8/27/2019
Tress Memorial Lecture, Silvana Tenreyro, External Member of the Monetary Policy Committee, Bank of England

Vice-President de Guindos at the ECB policy panel

7/10/2019