Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/154432 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
ECB Working Paper No. 1999
Publisher: 
European Central Bank (ECB), Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
This paper analyses the distribution of long-term inflation expectations in the euro area using individual density forecasts from the ECB Survey of Professional Forecasters. We exploit the panel dimension in this dataset to examine whether this distribution became less stable following the Great Recession, subsequent sovereign debt crisis and period when the lower bound on nominal interest rates became binding. Our results suggest that the distribution did change along several dimensions. We document a small downward shift in mean long-run expectations toward the end of our sample although they remain aligned with the ECB definition of price stability. More notably, however, we identify a trend toward a more uncertain and negatively skewed distribution with higher tail risk. Another main finding is that key features of the distribution are influenced by macroeconomic news, including the ex post historical track record of the central bank.
Subjects: 
density forecasts
ECB
euro area
inflation expectations
JEL: 
E31
E58
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-92-899-2721-5
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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