Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/28218 
Year of Publication: 
2008
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper Series in Economics No. 100
Publisher: 
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Lüneburg
Abstract: 
This paper analyzes the inflation expectation formation empirically for German consumers. The expectation formation process is analyzed for a representative consumer and for different demographic groups. The results indicate that German consumers are a relatively homogeneous group. There are nevertheless quantitative differences among the groups: Inflation expectations and perceived inflation tend to fall with rising income and unemployed individuals are outliers. Rational inflation expectation is not present for any group. Consumer and expert expectations have short and long run relationships. Evidence for a positive constant gain in the adaptive learning algorithm is given for almost all groups.
Subjects: 
Inflation expectations
conversion method
survey data
rationality tests
JEL: 
C42
D83
D84
E31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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