Inflation expectations, inflation target credibility and the COVID-19 pandemic: new evidence from Germany
- Using the exact wording of the ECB’s definition of price-stability, we started a representative online survey of German citizens in January 2019 that is designed to measure long-term inflation expectations and the credibility of the inflation target. Our results indicate that credibility has decreased in our sample period, particularly in the course of the deep recession implied by the COVID-19 pandemic. Interestingly, even though inflation rates in Germany have been clearly below 2% for several years, credibility has declined mainly because Germans increasingly expect that inflation will be much higher than 2% over the medium term. We investigate how inflation expectations and the impact of the pandemic depend on personal characteristics including age, gender, education, income, and political attitude.
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| Author: | Winnie Coleman, Dieter Nautz |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-575842 |
| URL: | https://ssrn.com/abstract=3963298 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3963298 |
| Parent Title (English): | Center for Financial Studies (Frankfurt am Main): CFS working paper series ; No. 658 |
| Series (Serial Number): | CFS working paper series (658) |
| Publisher: | Center for Financial Studies |
| Place of publication: | Frankfurt, M. |
| Document Type: | Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
| Year of Completion: | 2021 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2021 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2021/11/16 |
| Tag: | Covid-19 Pandemic; Credibility of Inflation Targets; Expectation Formation; Household Inflation Expectations; Online Surveys |
| Issue: | July, 2 2021 |
| Page Number: | 23 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 488736897 |
| Institutes: | Wirtschaftswissenschaften / Wirtschaftswissenschaften |
| Wissenschaftliche Zentren und koordinierte Programme / Center for Financial Studies (CFS) | |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 33 Wirtschaft / 330 Wirtschaft |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
