Policy language and information effects in the early days of Federal Reserve forward guidance

KG Lunsford - American Economic Review, 2020 - aeaweb.org
I show that the nature of the Federal Open Market Committee's (FOMC's) forward guidance
language shapes the private sector's responses to monetary policy statements. From …

Estimating inflation risk premia using inflation‐linked bonds: A review

A Kupfer - Contemporary Topics in Finance: A Collection of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
This chapter presents and compares existing studies' research designs and data used and
shows their estimates for the inflation risk premium, thus building on the work of Bekaert and …

Surveys of professionals

MP Clements, RW Rich, JS Tracy - Handbook of economic expectations, 2023 - Elsevier
This chapter provides an overview of surveys of professional forecasters, with a focus on the
US Survey of Professional Forecasters and the European Central Bank Survey of …

Five dimensions of the uncertainty–disagreement linkage

A Glas - International Journal of Forecasting, 2020 - Elsevier
We analyze the relationship between forecaster disagreement and macroeconomic
uncertainty in the Euro area using data from the European Central Bank's Survey of …

The measurement and characteristics of professional forecasters' uncertainty

G Boero, J Smith, KF Wallis - Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Several statistical issues that arise in the construction and interpretation of measures of
uncertainty from forecast surveys that include probability questions are considered, with …

The inflation risk premium in the post-Lehman period

G Camba-Méndez, T Werner - 2017 - econstor.eu
In this paper we construct model-free and model-based indicators for the inflation risk
premium in the US and the euro area. We study the impact of market liquidity, surprises from …

Assessing the anchoring of inflation expectations

T Strohsal, L Winkelmann - Journal of International Money and Finance, 2015 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a new approach to assess the degree of anchoring of inflation
expectations. We extend the static setup of the predominant news regressions by …

Macro-expectations, aggregate uncertainty, and expected term premia

CD Dick, M Schmeling, A Schrimpf - European Economic Review, 2013 - Elsevier
Based on expectations data from the Survey of Professional Forecasters (SPF), we construct
a real-time proxy for expected term premium changes of US long-term Treasury bonds. We …

Tails of inflation forecasts and tales of monetary policy

P Andrade, E Ghysels, J Idier - Available at SSRN 2185958, 2012 - papers.ssrn.com
We introduce a new measure called Inflation-at-Risk (I@ R) associated with (left and right)
tail inflation risk. We estimate I@ R using survey-based density forecasts. We show that it …

Discretionary fiscal policy, fiscal credibility and inflation risk premium

GC Montes, NT de Hollanda Lima - The Quarterly Review of Economics …, 2022 - Elsevier
Studies seek to identify the determinants of the inflation risk premium. Nevertheless, the
literature investigating the effects of fiscal variables on the inflation risk premium is scarce …