Forecaster surveys improve eurozone inflation modelling – ECB paper

Households’ and firms’ expectations do not provide useful data on inflation

Euro symbol, Willy Brandt Platz, Frankfurt
The European Central Bank

Using professional forecasters’ expectations improves the accuracy of models forecasting eurozone inflation, a working paper published by the European Central Bank finds.

In Do inflation expectations improve model-based inflation forecasts? Marta Bańbura, Danilo Leiva-Leon and Jan-Oliver Menz examine how different forecasters approach this task.

The authors look at the accuracy of a wide range of time series models that attempt to forecast eurozone inflation. These models use different types

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