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Expectations are at the centre of modern macroeconomic theory and policymakers. In this paper, we examine the predictive ability and the consistency properties of macroeconomic expectations using data of the European Central Bank (ECB) Survey of Professional Forecasters (SPF)
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of consumers' inflation expectations. First, we select some relevant keywords to identify tweets related to prices and … expectations thereof. Second, we build a set of daily measures of inflation expectations on the selected tweets combining the …-based inflation expectations.Our new indicators provide additional information beyond the market-based expectations, the professional …
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This paper investigates the accuracy and heterogeneity of output growth and inflation forecasts during the current and …
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respect to the Phillips curve and the Taylor rule falls during recessions and with inflation higher than 2%. Moreover … positive effect on consistency comes from the introduction of the official inflation target. Finally, we show that consumers … with theory-consistent expectations have lower absolute inflation forecast errors and are closer to professionals …
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evidence that consumers are less consistent with the Phillips curve and the Taylor rule during recessions and with inflation … of the Fed, where the strongest positive effect on consistency comes from the introduction of the official inflation … professionals' inflation forecasts. …
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Analysis of monthly disaggregated data from 1978 to 2016 on US household in ation expectations reveals that exposure to news on in ation and monetary policy helps to explain in ation expectations. This remains true when controlling for household personal characteristics, their perceptions of the...
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This paper investigates the accuracy and heterogeneity of output growth and inflation forecasts during the current and …
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This paper reinvestigates the performance of trimmed-mean inflation measures some 20 years since their inception … measures in forecasting headline inflation. …
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For the first time in the literature, this paper uses survey-based measures of inflation expectations to examine the … relationship between inflation and relative price variability (RPV). Using quarterly consumer price index data for 74 consumption … expected and unexpected inflation on RPV. Both headline and core inflation measures are used. The results show a statistically …
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Inflation expectation is acknowledged to be an important indicator for policy makers and financial investors. To … capture a more accurate real-time estimate of inflation expectation on the basis of financial markets, we propose an arbitrage …-free model across different countries in a multi-maturity term structure, where we first estimate inflation expectation by …
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