Inflation and Deflationary Biases in Inflation Expectations

Michael Lamla, Damian PJaifar and Lea Rendell
Authors registered in the RePEc Author Service: Damjan Pfajfar

Essex Finance Centre Working Papers from University of Essex, Essex Business School

Abstract: We explore the consequences of losing confidence in the price-stability objective of central banks by quantifying the inflation and deflationary biases in inflation expectations. In a model with an occasionally binding zero-lower-bound constraint, we show that both inflation bias and deflationary bias can exist as a steady-state outcome. We assess the predictions of this model using unique individual-level inflation expectations data across nine countries that allow for a direct identification of these biases. Both inflation and deflationary biases are present and sizable, but different across countries. Even among the euro-area countries, perceptions of the European Central Bank’s objectives are very distinct.

Keywords: inflation bias; deflationary bias; confidence in central banks; trust; effective lower bound; inflation expectations; microdata. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-06-06
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