Inflation Expectations in India: Learning From Household Tendency Surveys
Inflation Expectations in India: Learning From Household Tendency Surveys
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印度的通胀预期:从家庭倾向调查中学习
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发表时间:
2018
影响因子:
7.9
通讯作者:
Yongchen Zhao
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作者:
Abhiman Das;K. Lahiri;Yongchen Zhao
Using a large household survey conducted by the Reserve Bank of India since 2005, we estimate the dynamics of aggregate inflation expectations over a volatile inflation regime. A simple average of the quantitative responses produces biased estimates of the official inflation data. We therefore estimate expectations by quantifying the reported directional responses. For quantification, we use the Hierarchical Ordered Probit model, in addition to the balance statistic. We find that the quantified expectations from qualitative forecasts track the actual inflation rate better than the averages of the quantitative forecasts, highlighting the filtering role of qualitative tendency surveys. We also report estimates of disagreement among households. The proposed approach is particularly suitable in emerging economies where inflation tends to be high and volatile.
影响因子:
7.9
作者:
Lui S
通讯作者:
Lui S