Arbeitspapier

Forward guidance and expectation formation: A narrative approach

How forward guidance influences expectations is not yet fully understood. To study this issue, I construct central bank data that includes forward guidance and its attributes, central bank projections, and quantitative easing, which I combine with survey data. I find that, in response to a change in forward guidance, forecasters revise their interest rate forecasts in the intended direction by five basis points on average. The effect is not attributable to central bank information effects. Instead, when forming rate expectations, forecasters place full weight on their own inflation and growth forecasts and zero weight on those of the central bank.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Bank of Canada Staff Working Paper ; No. 2020-40

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
Expectations; Speculations
Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles: Forecasting and Simulation: Models and Applications
Monetary Policy
Central Banks and Their Policies
Thema
Central bank research
Monetary policy
Monetary policy communications
Transmission of monetary policy

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Sutherland, Christopher S.
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Bank of Canada
(wo)
Ottawa
(wann)
2020

DOI
doi:10.34989/swp-2020-40
Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Sutherland, Christopher S.
  • Bank of Canada

Entstanden

  • 2020

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