Oil Prices and Inflation Forecasts

Constantin Bürgi, Prachi Srivastava and Karl Whelan

No 202327, Working Papers from School of Economics, University College Dublin

Abstract: We examine how people’s forecasts for oil or gasoline prices influence their forecasts for broader inflation. We find little evidence from two US household surveys that people over-react to their beliefs about gasoline prices when formulating their forecasts about inflation, with much of theevidence pointing towards under-reaction. We also show that the participants in the ECB’s Survey of Professional Forecasters and the Wall Street Journal survey of economists appear to place too little weight on their subjective forecasts for oil prices when making their forecasts for total inflation.

Keywords: Inflation; Gasoline Prices; Forecasts (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D84 E31 E52 Q47 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 25 pages
Date: 2023-11
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