Do actions speak louder than words? Household expectations of inflation based on micro consumption data

Journal of Money, Credit and Banking

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1331-1363

  Inoue, Atsushi ^a   Kilian, Lutz ^b   Kiraz, Fatma Burcu ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Consumer Expenditure Survey; Euler equation; Inflation expectations; Michigan Survey of Consumers; Survey of Professional Forecasters

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349218010     PISSN: 00222879     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1538-4616.2009.00259.x     Document Type: Article

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