The Term Structure of Inflation Expectations

59 Pages Posted: 12 Jun 2008

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Mikhail Chernov

UCLA Anderson

Philippe Mueller

Warwick Business School Finance Group

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Date Written: April 2008

Abstract

We use evidence from the term structure of inflation expectations implicit in the nominal yields and survey forecasts of inflation to address the question of whether or not monetary policy is effective. We construct a model that accommodates forecasts over multiple horizons from multiple surveys and Treasury yields by allowing for differences between risk-neutral, subjective, and objective probability measures. We extract private sector expectations of inflation from this model and establish that they are driven by inflation, real activity and one latent factor, which is correlated with survey forecasts. We show that the interest rate responds to this "survey" factor. The inflation premium and out-of-sample estimates of the inflation long-run mean and persistence suggest that monetary policy became effective over time. As an implication, our model outperforms a standard macro-finance model in inflation and yield forecasting.

Keywords: inflation, macro-finance term structure model, monetary policy, survey forecasts

JEL Classification: C50, E52, G12

Suggested Citation

Chernov, Mikhail and Mueller, Philippe, The Term Structure of Inflation Expectations (April 2008). CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP6809, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1143172

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Philippe Mueller

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