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Inflation Expectations in the U.S.: Linking Markets, Households, and Businesses

By Peter D. Williams

November 13, 2020

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Peter D. Williams Inflation Expectations in the U.S.: Linking Markets, Households, and Businesses, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2020) accessed November 8, 2024

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Summary

Inflation has been below the Federal Reserve’s target for much of the past 20 years, creating worries that inflation may be deanchoring from the FOMC’s target. This paper uses a factor model that incorporates information from professional forecasters, household and business surveys, and the market for Treasury inflation protected securities (TIPS) to estimate long-run inflation expectations. These have fallen notably in the past few years (to roughly 1.9 percent for CPI inflation, well below the FOMC’s target). It appears that, even before the covid recession, the private sector viewed the economy as likely to suffer from persistent headwinds to inflation.

Subject: Asset and liability management, Inflation, Inflation targeting, Liquidity, Monetary policy, National accounts, Oil prices, Prices, Return on investment

Keywords: Breakeven inflation series, CPI inflation, Expectations survey, Factor modeling, Global, Inflation, Inflation expectation, Inflation expectations, Inflation risk premium, Inflation targeting, Liquidity, No-arbitrage term structure model, Oil prices, Return on investment, Risk premia, Surveys, TIPS, WP, Yield curve

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    25

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2020/240

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA2020240

  • ISBN:

    9781513561158

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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