First-order and higher-order inflation expectations: evidence about households and firms

We study first-order and higher-order inflation expectations of German households and firms elicited from surveys. The data allows to shed light on the relation between different orders of beliefs, and to derivate implications for noisy-information models with infinite regress. Moreover, since the e...

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Main Authors: Kieren, Pascal (Author) , König-Kersting, Christian (Author) , Schmidt, Robert J. (Author) , Trautmann, Stefan T. (Author) , Theurich, Franziska (Author)
Format: Book/Monograph Working Paper
Language:English
Published: Innsbruck, Austria Faculty of Economics and Statistics, University of Innsbruck 5 Juliy 2023
Series:Working papers in economics and statistics 2023, 10
In: Working papers in economics and statistics (2023, 10)

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Online Access:Verlag, Volltext: https://www2.uibk.ac.at/downloads/c9821000/wpaper/2023-10.pdf
Verlag, Volltext: https://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:inn:wpaper:2023-10
Resolving-System, kostenfrei: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/278557
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Author Notes:Pascal Kieren, Christian König-Kersting, Robert Schmidt, Stefan Trautmann, Franziska Heinicke
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Summary:We study first-order and higher-order inflation expectations of German households and firms elicited from surveys. The data allows to shed light on the relation between different orders of beliefs, and to derivate implications for noisy-information models with infinite regress. Moreover, since the elicited data is identical for households and firms, it also allows studying whether the relation between first-order and higher-order beliefs differs between the two samples. While we find that this relation is mostly identical between households and firms in our data, we identify differences to previously elicited data in the literature. We discuss potential sources for these differences and their theoretical implications.
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