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We show empirically that survey-based measures of expected inflation are significant and strong predictors of future … money illusion seems to be the driving force behind our results. Another popular hypothesis - inflation as a proxy for …
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This paper examines the long-run effects of supply shocks (such as oil shocks) on inflation in the United States. The … persistence of supply shocks in U.S. inflation fell considerably during the period of Volcker's disinflation (1979-1982). My … the behavior of inflation expectations-agents expected shocks to persist in the pre-Volcker period, but not in the post …
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How people perceive and forecast inflation has the potential to impact on a range of economic outcomes. We reveal large …, systematic overestimation of inflation by Irish consumers, which varies by social group. In contrast to previous work in this … phenomena. We also offer evidence that inflation misperceptions are linked to attitudes and intentions with respect to …
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A crucial but often ignored element of inflation expectations is the amount of perceived inflation risk. This paper …) using a new methodology. The main conclusion from our analysis is that, when monitoring inflation expectations, limiting … attention to a point prediction is not sufficient. The analysis of inflation expectations should take into account inflation …
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In this paper we argue that future inflation in an economy depends on the way people perceive current inflation, their … inflation sentiment. We construct some simple measures of inflation sentiment which capture whether price acceleration is shared … by many components of the CPI basket. In a comparative analysis of the forecasting power of the different inflation …
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-term interest rate into an expected inflation and an ex-ante real interest rate component. The latter may be a useful indicator of … rate series and the stationary component of the real interest rate is estimated and shocks to expected inflation and the ex …-ante real rate are identified using the long-run restriction that only shocks to expected inflation have long-run effects on the …
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, we follow Roberts (1997) and Adam and Padula (2003) and use direct measures of inflation expectations. The data source is … the Ifo World Economic Survey, which quarterly polls economic experts about their expected future development of inflation … turns out to more relevant for most countries in our sample. (ii) The use of survey data for inflation expectations yields a …
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Using daily data on inflation-indexed bonds, we find evidence of a negative relationship between ECB communication … in euro area break-even inflation. However, this result is only found for the second half of 2005. At that time, the …
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The present paper uses survey data on expected consumer price developments to analyse the role of inflation … expectations in the inflation process. The survey measures of price expectations are derived from the European Commission … estimates of the New Keynesian inflation model presented here underscore the importance of inflation expectations for the short …
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Inflation expectations are extracted from the Consumer Survey, which is conducted by the European Commission for the …
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