Replication Data for: When Are Monetary Policy Preferences Egocentric? Evidence from American Surveys and an Experiment

This paper enters the international/comparative political-economy debate about whether individual-level macroeconomic policy preferences are egocentric and, if so, on what basis (factors, sectors or firms). It argues that contextual information may function as a pre-condition for the emergence of egocentric preferences. With a focus on the tradeoff between using monetary policy for a domestic or an international goal, it presents evidence from three original American surveys using informative vignettes to show how monetary policy preferences exhibit firm-based egocentric variation: individuals whose employer does most of its business in overseas markets have a lesser preference for domestic monetary autonomy. It also presents evidence from a survey experiment to show how the strength of this egocentric relationship depends on the informative power of the vignette: a more contextually informative vignette produces a stronger relationship between overseas business activity and a preference against domestic monetary autonomy.

本文参与了国际/比较政治经济学领域的一场核心争论：个体层面的宏观经济政策偏好是否属于利己型（egocentric）偏好，若确实如此，则其形成依据究竟是要素、行业还是企业层面的因素。本文提出，情境信息或许是利己型偏好产生的前置条件。本文聚焦于货币政策在国内目标与国际目标间的权衡问题，依托三项原创性美国问卷调查，结合信息丰富的情境 vignette 展开实证分析，结果表明货币政策偏好呈现基于企业层面的利己型差异：雇主业务主要面向海外市场的个体，对国内货币自主权的偏好程度更低。此外，本文还通过一项问卷调查实验提供了实证证据，证明此种利己型关联的强度取决于情境 vignette 的信息丰度：信息更为详实的情境 vignette 会显著强化海外业务活动与“反对国内货币自主权”偏好之间的关联。