Showing 1 - 10 of 58,306
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010241921
In this paper we argue that future inflation in an economy depends on the way people perceive current inflation, their … inflation sentiment. We construct some simple measures of inflation sentiment which capture whether price acceleration is shared … by many components of the CPI basket. In a comparative analysis of the forecasting power of the different inflation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264748
I present evidence that higher frequency measures of inflation expectations outperform lower frequency measures of … inflation expectations in tests of accuracy, predictive power, and rationality. For decades, the academic literature has focused … on three survey measures of expected inflation: the Livingston Survey, the Survey of Professional Forecasters, and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009650037
In this paper we argue that future inflation in an economy depends on the way people perceive current inflation, their … inflation sentiment.We construct some simple measures of inflation sentiment which capture whether price acceleration is shared … by many components of the CPI basket. In a comparative analysis of the forecasting power of the different inflation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005738715
-kinked demand schedule for goods produced by firms. Our model can jointly account for the modest decline in inflation during the … Great Recession and the surge in inflation post-COVID-19. Because our model implies a stronger transmission of shocks when … inflation is high, it generates conditional heteroskedasticity in inflation and inflation risk. Hence, our model can generate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014544443
This public policy brief examines the relationship between trend inflation and commodity price increases and finds that … evidence from recent decades supports the notion that commodity price changes do not affect the long-run inflation rate …. Evidence from earlier decades suggests that effects on inflation expectations and wages played a key role in whether commodity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123760
In this paper we argue that future inflation in an economy depends on the way people perceive current inflation, their … inflation sentiment. We construct some simple measures of inflation sentiment which capture whether price acceleration is shared … by many components of the CPI basket. In a comparative analysis of the forecasting power of the different inflation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012722363
Inflation is a macroeconomic phenomenon, intensively experimented by the Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries … period 1990-2014. The aim of this study is to analyse the inflation phenomenon in this countries in the mentioned period that … has been characterized by passing from hyperinflation to deflation. The evolution of inflation rate is extremely important …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012864774
of inflation in the future. A recent article from the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland found that simple models of … inflation tend to forecast inflation better than large statistical models. This paper re-visits the price gap model where the … forecast horizons, and thus has the most usefulness for inflation forecasting. Robustness checks are then run – the models are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013052451
of inflation in the future. A recent article from the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland found that simple models of … inflation tend to forecast inflation better than large statistical models. This paper re-visits the price gap model where the … forecast horizons, and thus has the most usefulness for inflation forecasting. Robustness checks are then run – the models are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013058951