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Erscheinungsjahr: 
2014
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Working Paper No. 2014-24
Verlag: 
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Zusammenfassung: 
This paper examines the relation between variations in perceived inflation uncertainty and bond premia. Using the subjective probability distributions available in the Survey of Professional Forecasters we construct a quarterly time series of average individual uncertainty about inflation forecasts since 1968. We show that this ex-ante measure of inflation uncertainty differs importantly from measures of disagreement regarding inflation forecasts and other proxies, such as model-based ex-post measures of macroeconomic risk. Inflation uncertainty is an important driver of bond premia, but the relation varies across inflation regimes. It is most important in the high-inflation regime early in the sample and the low-inflation regime over the last 15 years. Once the role of inflation uncertainty is accounted for, disagreement regarding inflation forecasts appears a much less important driver of bond premia.
Schlagwörter: 
survey expectations
probabilistic forecasts
heterogeneity
inflation uncertainty
bond risk premia
JEL: 
E37
E44
E47
C53
G12
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