A Brief Analysis of Aggregate Measures as an Alternative to the Median at Central Bank of Brazil's Survey of Professional Forecasts

Fabia Aparecida de Carvalho

No 9/2013, Economics and Politics Working Paper Series from Economics and Politics Research Group (EPRG), University of Brasília

Abstract: This paper presents a brief analysis of representative measures of inflation expectations from Central Bank of Brazil's Survey of Professional Forecasts that are alternative to the median response. We build time series with the mode and core measures of inflation expectations from the panel of professional forecasts surveyed from January 2002 to September 2012. We compare them to the median response with respect to their predictive power in a 12-month-ahead horizon. We also compare the predictive power of the alternative measures with the realized core of consumer price inflation.

Keywords: inflation expectations; market forecasts; median; core inflation; trimmed core inflation; Brazil (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E37 E58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-06-12
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