The Curve of Inflation Expectations and Firms’ Investments

Using rich survey data on Italian firms, this paper studies the formation mechanisms of inflation expectations at different forecasting horizons. Starting from empirical evidence embedded in firms’ inflation expectation curve, we obtain 3 main findings: (1) firms extrapolate for long forecasting hor...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Perinelli, Giuditta
Other Authors: Thesmar, David
Format: Thesis
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2024
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/157104