Understanding inflation expectations is an integral part of understanding asset pricing and real economic decisions. We study the role of inflation experience in the formation of inflation expectations by investigating whether and to what extent inflation expectations of different forecasters...

We study the convergence of European bond markets and the anchoring of inflation expectations in the euro area using high-frequency bond yield data for France, Germany, Italy, and Spain as well as smaller euro area countries and a control group comprising the UK, Denmark, and Sweden. We find...

Over the last two decades, communication has become an increasingly importantaspect of monetary policy. These real-world developments have spawned a huge newscholarly literature on central bank communicationmostly empirical, and almost all of it written in this decade. We survey this...