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This paper proposes a measure of real-time inflation expectations based on metadata, i.e., data about data, constructed … Search Index (GISI) is assessed relative to 37 other indicators of inflation expectations – 36 survey measures and the TIPS … spread. For decades, the academic literature has focused on three measures of inflation expectations: the Livingston Survey …
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I present evidence that higher frequency measures of inflation expectations outperform lower frequency measures of … inflation expectations in tests of accuracy, predictive power, and rationality. For decades, the academic literature has focused … collection of 37 different measures of inflation expectations, including many previously unexploited monthly and real …
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interest rate rule, raising the possibility of inefficient fluctuations due to the dependence of expectations on extraneous … combine forward looking expectations and predetermined variables. We consider a variety of specifications that incorporate …
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firm in a dynamic environment according to decisions about production depending on expectations. The model incorporates the … formation of expectations in a market environment by propagation of sentiment between heterogeneous agents with limited … rationality. When incorporating expectations about the real interest rate, seen as a so-called prime mover according to the OECD …
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from individual expectations. Subjects have no information about underlying market equilibrium equations, but can learn by … stable treatment, rational expectations (RE) yield a good description of observed aggregate price fluctuations: prices remain …
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learn, form their expectations, and make decisions regarding savings and production for future periods. There are no … are unexpected by agents, or if future price expectations are not adjusted exactly proportionally to the announced …, as that would require it knowing precisely the actual law of motion of the economy, current market’s expectations, and …
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In this article, we investigate the possibility of sunspot equilibria to emerge from a process of learning and adaptation on agents’ beliefs. We consider both finite state Markov sunspots and sunspots in autoregressive form, and derive conditions for the existence of an heterogeneous...
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Most DSGE models assume full information and model-consistent expectations. This paper relaxes both these assumptions … direct knowledge of the structure of economy or the values of aggregate quanti?ties; instead they form expectations by … similar to the equilibrium with model-consistent expectations and market-consistent information. Learning does not introduce …
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The paper compares different procedures to convert in ordinary quantitative indicators the results of qualitative tendency surveys. The main result is that different procedures tend to produce quantitative indicators with a very similar dynamics. A new quantification method based on the...
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This study sheds new light on the question of whether or not sentiment surveys, and the expectations derived from them …
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