Firms' Inflation Expectations: New Evidence from France

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العنوان: Firms' Inflation Expectations: New Evidence from France
المؤلفون: Frédérique Savignac, Olivier Coibion, Erwan Gautier, Yuriy Gorodnichenko
بيانات النشر: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2021.
سنة النشر: 2021
مصطلحات موضوعية: Inflation, media_common.quotation_subject, Respondent, Wage, Economics, Position (finance), Monetary economics, Wage growth, Uncorrelated, media_common
الوصف: Using a new survey of firms’ inflation expectations in France, we provide novel evidence about the measurement and formation of inflation expectations on the part of firms. First, French firms report inflation expectations with a smaller, but still positive, bias than households and display less disagreement. Second, we characterize the extent and manner in which the wording of questions matters for the measurement of firms’ inflation expectations. Third, we document whether and how the position of the respondent within the firm affects the provided responses. Fourth, because our survey measures firms’ expectations about aggregate and firm-level wage growth along with their inflation expectations, we are able to show that expectations about wages are even more condensed than firms’ inflation expectations and almost completely uncorrelated with them, indicating that firms perceive little link between price and wage inflation. Finally, an experimental treatment indicates that an exogenous change in firms’ inflation expectations has no effect on their aggregate wage expectations.
DOI: 10.3386/w29376
URL الوصول: https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::d8a14f152404f579e6e11dd0e71e2642
https://doi.org/10.3386/w29376
Rights: OPEN
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