The role of survey-based expectations in real-time forecasting of US inflation

Zo Andriantomanga ()
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Zo Andriantomanga: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee

Business Economics, 2025, vol. 60, issue 2, No 4, 77-98

Abstract: Abstract This paper performs a real-time forecasting exercise for US inflation from 1992Q1 to 2022Q2. We reinvestigate the literature on autoregressive (AR) inflation gap models—the deviation of inflation from long-run inflation expectations. The findings corroborate that, while simple models remain hard to beat, the multivariate extensions to the AR gap models can improve forecasting performance at short horizons. The results show that (i) forecast combination improves forecast accuracy over simpler models, (ii) aggregating survey measures, using dynamic principal components, improves forecast accuracy, and (iii) the additional information obtained from the error correction process between inflation and long-run inflation expectations can improve forecasting performance.

Keywords: Inflation; Survey forecasts; Forecast combination; Inflation expectations; Error correction; Real-time data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C53 E31 E37 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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DOI: 10.1057/s11369-025-00398-2

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