Expectations of firms and households about the future trajectory of inflation tend to influence their current investment and consumption/saving decisions, and the price and wage-setting behaviour. By firmly anchoring inflation expectations, monetary policy can prevent a wage-price spiral and...

Post-COVID, supply shock-induced spike in inflation in India has spawned renewed research interest in assessing the extent to which inflation expectations are anchored to the inflation target, given its importance to securing price stability in the medium run. This article constructs a...

The Schumpeterian creative destruction process requires a dynamic reallocation of resources from weak and vulnerable firms to strong firms having high growth potential. Zombie firms that often survive longer than desirable taking advantage of countercyclical policy support, however, tend to...

The Schumpeterian creative destruction process requires a dynamic reallocation of resources from weak and vulnerable firms to strong firms having high growth potential. Zombie firms that often survive longer than desirable taking advantage of countercyclical policy support, however, tend to...

This paper examines the usefulness of survey-based measures of inflation expectations to predict inflation using hybrid versions of New Keynesian Phillips Curve (NKPC). While both 3 months ahead and 1-year ahead inflation expectations of households emerge statistically significant in explaining...

This paper examines the usefulness of survey-based information on inflation expectations of households in the analysis of inflation dynamics in India. As household inflation expectations do not satisfy the statistical properties of rationality and unbiasedness, hybrid versions of New Keynesian...