Estimation of firms' inflation expectations using the survey DI

Jouchi Nakajima and 上智 中島

No HIAS-E-131, Discussion paper series from Hitotsubashi Institute for Advanced Study, Hitotsubashi University

Abstract: This study uses the Bank of Japan's Tankan (Short-Term Economic Survey of Enterprises in Japan) results to estimate the long-run time series of Japanese firms' inflation expectations since 1990. In the Tankan, the series for "consumer price inflation expectations" and "output price inflation expectations" go back to 2014, while that for "output price DI" features a longer time series. Using the relationship between these series for 2014–2022, we estimate one-year ahead consumer price inflation expectations for 1990–2013 based on the output price DI. The firms' inflation expectations obtained are found to have information that improves forecast accuracy when forecasting consumer price inflation, which is not included in the lag in inflation or the output gap, and enhances forecast accuracy more than using economists' inflation expectations.

Keywords: Inflation expectations; Output price expectations; Tankan (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C22 E31 E37 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 42 pages
Date: 2023-07
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