Kitsul, Yuriy; Wright, Jonathan H. - 2012 - First Draft: January 3, 2012, This version: June 6, 2012
Recently a market in options based on CPI inflation (inflation caps and floors) has emerged in the US. This paper uses quotes on these derivatives to construct probability densities for inflation. We study how these pdfs respond to news announcements, and find that the implied odds of deflation...