Artikel

Inflation Expectations, Inflation Target Credibility, and the COVID‐19 Pandemic: Evidence from Germany

Using the exact wording of the European Central Bank'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, and political attitude.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Journal: Journal of Money, Credit and Banking ; ISSN: 1538-4616 ; Volume: 55 ; Year: 2022 ; Issue: 7 ; Pages: 1937-1953 ; Hoboken, NJ: Wiley

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Thema
credibility of inflation targets
Covid‐19 pandemic
expectation formation
household inflation expectations
online surveys

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
COLEMAN, WINNIE
NAUTZ, DIETER
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Wiley
(wo)
Hoboken, NJ
(wann)
2022

DOI
doi:10.1111/jmcb.12998
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ

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  • Artikel

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  • COLEMAN, WINNIE
  • NAUTZ, DIETER
  • Wiley

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  • 2022

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