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Celasun, Oya ; Mihet, Roxana ; Ratnovski, Lev
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March 01, 2012
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Summary:
U.S. monetary policy can remain extraordinarily accommodative only if longer-term inflation expectations stay well-anchored, including in response to commodity price shocks. We find that oil price shocks have a statistically significant, but economically small impact on longer-term inflation compensation embedded in U.S. Treasury bonds. The estimated effect is larger for the post-crisis period, and robust to controlling for measures of liquidity risk premia. Oil price shocks are also correlated with the variance of longer-term inflation expectations in the University of Michigan Survey of Consumers in the post-crisis period. These results are not attributable to looser monetary policy - oil price increases were associated with expectations of a faster monetary tightening after the crisis. Overall, the findings are consistent with some impact of commodity prices on long-term inflation expectations and/or on inflation rate risk.
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Series:
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Working Paper No. 12/89
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Agricultural prices | Commodity prices | External shocks | Inflation | Monetary policy | Oil prices | Price increases | United States
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Inflation expectations | commodity prices |
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English
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March 01, 2012
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WPIEA2012089
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24
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