Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/169201 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
SFB 649 Discussion Paper No. 2017-011
Publisher: 
Humboldt University of Berlin, Collaborative Research Center 649 - Economic Risk, Berlin
Abstract: 
Analysis of monthly disaggregated data from 1978 to 2016 on US household in ation expectations reveals that exposure to news on in ation and monetary policy helps to explain in ation expectations. This remains true when controlling for household personal characteristics, their perceptions of the e ectiveness of government policies, their expectations of future interest rates and unemployment, and their sentiment levels. We nd evidence of an asymmetric impact of news on in ation expectations particularly after 1983, with news on rising in ation and easier monetary policy having a stronger e ect in comparison to news on lowering in ation and tightening monetary policy.
Subjects: 
Inflation expectations
news impact
forecast disagreement
JEL: 
D83
D84
E31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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