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Do actions speak louder than words? Household expectations of inflation based on micro consumption data

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dc.creator Inoue, Atsushi
dc.creator Kilian, Lutz
dc.creator Kiraz, Fatma Burcu
dc.date 2006
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-16T07:06:08Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-16T07:06:08Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-16
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10419/19655
dc.identifier ppn:516970895
dc.identifier RePEc:zbw:bubdp1:4755
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/19655
dc.description Survey data on household expectations of inflation are routinely used in economic analysis, yet it is not clear to what extent households are able to articulate their expectations in survey interviews. We propose an alternative approach to recovering households' implicit expectations of inflation from their consumption expenditures. We show that these implicit expectations have predictive power for CPI inflation. They are better predictors of CPI inflation than survey responses, except for highly educated consumers. Moreover, households' implicit inflation expectations respond to inflation news, consistent with recent work on the transmission of information across consumers. The response of consumers' expectations to inflation news tends to increase with their level of education. Our evidence strengthens the case for macroeconomic models with sticky information.
dc.language eng
dc.relation Discussion paper Series 1 / Volkswirtschaftliches Forschungszentrum der Deutschen Bundesbank 2006,26
dc.rights http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject D84
dc.subject D12
dc.subject E31
dc.subject ddc:330
dc.subject Inflation Expectations
dc.subject Consumer Expenditure Survey
dc.subject Michigan Survey of Consumers
dc.subject Survey of Professional Forecasters
dc.subject Euler Equation
dc.subject Inflationserwartung
dc.subject Konsumentenverhalten
dc.subject Verbraucherausgaben
dc.subject Schätzung
dc.subject USA
dc.title Do actions speak louder than words? Household expectations of inflation based on micro consumption data
dc.type doc-type:workingPaper


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