The role of information and experience for households' inflation expectations
Based on a new survey of German households, we investigate the role that information channels and lifetime experience play in households' inflation expectations. We show that the types of information channels that households use to inform themselves about monetary policy are closely related to...
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| Format: | Book/Monograph Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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Frankfurt am Main
Deutsche Bundesbank
[2021]
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| Series: | Discussion paper / Deutsche Bundesbank
no 2021, 07 |
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Discussion paper (no 2021, 07)
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| Online Access: | Verlag, kostenfrei: https://www.bundesbank.de/resource/blob/861446/702eaeac7b2e23f0def1b314f6c4952c/mL/2021-03-19-dkp-07-data.pdf Resolving-System, kostenfrei: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/232070 Resolving-System: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:101:1-2021073009144047637942 Langzeitarchivierung Nationalbibliothek: https://d-nb.info/1237892449/34 
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| Author Notes: | Christian Conrad, Zeno Enders, Alexander Glas |
| Summary: | Based on a new survey of German households, we investigate the role that information channels and lifetime experience play in households' inflation expectations. We show that the types of information channels that households use to inform themselves about monetary policy are closely related to their socioeconomic characteristics. These information channels, in turn, have a major influence on the level of perceived past and expected future inflation, as well as on the uncertainty thereof. The expected future change in inflation and the unemployment rate, however, is strongly influenced by individual experience of these variables. Similarly, the expected response of inflation to a change in the interest rate is also shaped by experience. We propose the interpretation that households obtain inflation numbers from the media, but their 'economic model' is shaped by experience. |
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| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISBN: | 9783957298157 |