Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/108649 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 1413
Publisher: 
Koç University-TÜSİAD Economic Research Forum (ERF), Istanbul
Abstract: 
In this paper, we study the evolution of inflation expectations for two key emerging economies, Brazil and Turkey, using a reduced form model in a state-space framework, where the level of inflation is modeled explicitly. We match the survey-based inflation expectations and inflation targets set by the central banks of Brazil and Turkey with the predictions implied by the model in a statistically coherent way. Confronting these expectations with inflation targets leads to a statistical measure of the discrepancy between inflation expectations and the target inflation. The results indicate that inflation expectations are anchored more closely the inflation target set by the Central Bank for Brazil. By contrast, there is more evidence that inflation expectations deviate significantly from the target inflation set by the Central Bank for Turkey.
Subjects: 
Inflation targeting
survey-based inflation expectations
forecasting
state space model
JEL: 
E31
E37
C32
C51
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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