• DOI:10.1146/ANNUREV-ECONOMICS-081512-141510
Corpus ID: 154846493

Measuring Inflation Expectations

@article{Armantier2013MeasuringIE,
  title={Measuring Inflation Expectations},
  author={O. Armantier and W. B. D. Bruin and S. Potter and G. Topa and W. V. D. Klaauw and Basit Zafar},
  journal={Annual Review of Economics},
  year={2013},
  volume={5},
  pages={273-301}
}

O. Armantier, W. B. D. Bruin, +3 authors Basit Zafar

Published 2013

Economics

Annual Review of Economics

To conduct monetary policy, central banks around the world increasingly rely on measures of public inflation expectations. In this article, we review findings from an ongoing initiative at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York aimed at improving the measurement and our understanding of household inflation expectations through surveys. We discuss the importance of question wording and the usefulness of new questions to elicit an individual’s distribution of inflation beliefs. We present evidence… CONTINUE READING

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