Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/278557 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
Working Papers in Economics and Statistics No. 2023-10
Publisher: 
University of Innsbruck, Research Platform Empirical and Experimental Economics (eeecon), Innsbruck
Abstract: 
We study first-order and higher-order inflation expectations of German households and firms elicited from surveys. The data allows to shed light on the relation between different orders of beliefs, and to derivate implications for noisy-information models with infinite regress. Moreover, since the elicited data is identical for households and firms, it also allows studying whether the relation between first-order and higher-order beliefs differs between the two samples. While we find that this relation is mostly identical between households and firms in our data, we identify differences to previously elicited data in the literature. We discuss potential sources for these differences and their theoretical implications.
Subjects: 
Inflation expectations
higher-order beliefs
noisy-information models
surveys
JEL: 
D84
E31
G17
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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