Disagreement and biases in inflation expectations

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking

Volumn 41, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 365-396

  CapistrÁn, Carlos ^a   Timmermann, Allan ^b,c,d  

^a BANCO DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Asymmetric loss; Real time data; Survey expectations

Indexed keywords

EID: 63349100426     PISSN: 00222879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1538-4616.2009.00209.x     Document Type: Article

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