Ropele, Tiziano; Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Coibion, Olivier - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Using Italian data that includes both inflation forecasts of firms and external information on their balance sheets, we … study the causal effect of changes in the dispersion of beliefs about future inflation on the misallocation of resources. We … find that as disagreement increases, so does misallocation. In times of low inflation, the aggregate TFP loss of the …