Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/212304 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
Bank of Finland Research Discussion Papers No. 29/2014
Publisher: 
Bank of Finland, Helsinki
Abstract: 
This paper examines aggregated inflation expectations based on the ECB Survey of Professional Forecasters (ECB SPF). We analyse possible impacts of changing panel composition on short and long term point forecasts and forecast uncertainties using approach, which is based on a set of sub-panels of fixed composition. Our results indicate that the unbalanced panel data do not cause systematic distortions to aggregated survey information. However, micro level analysis of expectations would also be useful, especially in times of wide disagreement across forecasters and high levels of inflation uncertainty.
Subjects: 
survey data
expectations
changing panel composition
JEL: 
C53
E37
E31
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-952-323-008-8
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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