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.
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Bank of Canada Staff Working Paper ; No. 2020-40
- Klassifikation
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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
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Central bank research
Monetary policy
Monetary policy communications
Transmission of monetary policy
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Sutherland, Christopher S.
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Bank of Canada
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Ottawa
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2020
- DOI
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doi:10.34989/swp-2020-40
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Sutherland, Christopher S.
- Bank of Canada
Entstanden
- 2020