Extracting Information from Different ExpectationsNo 2020-008, Working Papers from The George Washington University, Department of Economics, H. O. Stekler Research Program on Forecasting Abstract: Long-term expectations are believed to play a crucial role in driving future inflation and guiding monetary policy responses. However, expectations are not directly observed and the available measures can present a wide range of results. To understand what drives these differences, we examine the evolution of alternative consumer price inflation expectations in the United States between 2003-2019. We show that inflation forecasts can be improved by incorporating the differential between survey and market-based measures of expectations. Next, we decompose and extract the differentials in rigidity and information between measures of expectations. While both information and rigidities play a role, the information differential is more important. Using machine learning methods, we find that up to half of the information differential is explained by real-time changes in measures of liquidity. This also explains some past forecast improvements and helps predict the divergence in long-term inflation expectations in 2020. Pages: 33 pages Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gwc:wpaper:2020-008 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in Working Papers from The George Washington University, Department of Economics, H. O. Stekler Research Program on Forecasting Contact information at EDIRC. |
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