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Any measure of unobserved inflation uncertainty relies on specific assumptions which are most likely not fulfilled … measurement error, we propose using common information contained in different measures derived from survey data, a variety of … indicator for inflation uncertainty. Moreover, the idiosyncratic component of survey disagreement contains systematic …
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This paper studies uncertainty using the ECB Survey of Professional Forecasters' data. We consider both inflation and … are based on subjective probability distributions of survey respondents. Our analysis indicates that individual inflation … inflation uncertainty has a negative impact on economic activity by decreasing output growth and increasing inflation and …
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implementation of Muth’s hypothesis to represent market participants’ inflation expectations under Knightian uncertainty arising from … that processes driving inflation time-series and inflation forecasts undergo nonrecurring structural shifts. In contrast to …
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inflation. During crises periods, the strength of the transmission of inflation uncertainty shocks from one country to another … tends to intensify. This paper examines empirical methodologies to measure the strength of the interdependence of inflation … uncertainty between the UK and the euro area. We first estimate inflation uncertainty by expost forecast errors from a bivariate …
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We rely on the Atlanta Fed's Business Inflation Expectations survey to draw inference about firms' inflation … literature, we find evidence that the concept of "aggregate inflation" as measured through price statistics like the consumer … experiments (including randomized controlled trials) that show how researchers word questions to elicit inflation expectations and …
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We rely on the Atlanta Fed's Business Inflation Expectations survey to draw inference about firms' inflation … literature, we find evidence that the concept of "aggregate inflation" as measured through price statistics like the consumer … experiments (including randomized controlled trials) that show how researchers word questions to elicit inflation expectations and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014048703
In this study, we examine the connectedness of exchange rate uncertainty and inflation. In an economy with a flexible … price level. We empirically analyze the impact of exchange rate uncertainty on inflation by using panel data from 149 … and positive effect on inflation. We also show that effect of exchange rate uncertainty on inflation is nonlinear. As the …
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This paper is first attempt to measure and analyze inflation uncertainty in Pakistan and it provides several … contributions. Using quarterly data from 1976:01 to 2008:02, at first stage we model inflation uncertainty as time varying process … through GARCH framework. At second stage asymmetric behavior of inflation uncertainty is analyzed by using GJR-GARCH and …
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Do extreme events have a significant effect about textual sentiment? The purpose of this article is to highlight the need to correct the estimation of indicators of economic uncertainty. The indicators were constructed from textual data about the perspective of extreme events. For this purpose,...
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We propose a multicountry quantile factor augmeneted vector autoregression (QFAVAR) to model heterogeneities both across countries and across characteristics of the distributions of macroeconomic time series. The presence of quantile factors allows for summarizing these two heterogeneities in a...
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