How do global political shocks influence individuals' expectations about economic outcomes? We run a unique survey on inflation expectations among 145 tenured economics professors in Germany and exploit the 2022 Russian invasion in Ukraine as a natural experiment to identify the effect of a...

How do global political shocks influence individuals’ expectations about economic outcomes? We run a unique survey on inflation expectations among 145 tenured economics professors in Germany and exploit the 2022 Russian invasion in Ukraine as a natural experiment to identify the effect of a...

How do global political shocks influence individuals' expectations about economic outcomes? We run a unique survey on inflation expectations among 145 tenured economics professors in Germany and exploit the 2022 Russian invasion in Ukraine as a natural experiment to identify the effect of a...

There is no consensus about the causes of the reduction in business cycle volatility seen in many major economies over the last decade. Using stylised models of the economies of the US, Euro area, UK and Japan, we argue that economic stability has been fostered by improved monetary policy and by...

Seit dem vierten Quartal 2014 wird im Rahmen des »Ifo World Economic Survey« (WES) die Frage nach der erwarteten Inflationsrate in drei bis fünf Jahren gestellt. Die Ergebnisse dieser Frage werden für einzelne Länder sowie aggregiert für wichtige Wirtschaftsräume (wie z.B. den Euroraum)...

The expansion of the US government economic stimulus package has raised concerns about accelerating inflation and rising asset values not only inside the country, but throughout the world. In the medium term, the Russian economy and financial market may benefit from climbing US budget spending....

There is no consensus about the causes of the reduction in business cycle volatility seen in many major economies over the last decade. Using stylised models of the economies of the US, Euro area, UK and Japan, we argue that economic stability has been fostered by improved monetary policy and by...

Seit dem vierten Quartal 2014 wird im Rahmen des »Ifo World Economic Survey« (WES) die Frage nach der erwarteten Inflationsrate in drei bis fünf Jahren gestellt. Die Ergebnisse dieser Frage werden für einzelne Länder sowie aggregiert für wichtige Wirtschaftsräume (wie z.B. den Euroraum)...

Do survey data on inflation expectations contain useful information for estimating macroeconomic models? I address this question by using survey data in the New Keynesian model by Smets and Wouters (2007) to estimate and compare its performance when solved under the assumptions of Rational...