September 2021 issue contents
Inflation News and Euro-Area Inflation Expectations

Juan Angel GarcĂ­aa, Sebastian E. V. Wernerb

Abstract

The protracted period of low inflation in the euro area since 2013 has triggered a significant decline in long-term inflation compensation. This paper re-investigates changes in the sensitivity of inflation compensation to inflation and macroeconomic news and expands existing work in two key dimensions: (i) we analyze all available (advanced) inflation releases for country and euro-area-wide inflation; (ii) we use daily frequency, time-varying sensitivity, and intraday regressions to reach more robust conclusions. Our key findings are twofold. First, timeliness is crucial in inflation markets: it is the early inflation news (flash estimates) which led to revisions in longterm compensation. Second, the anchoring of euro-area inflation expectations has weakened significantly since 2013.

JEL Code: E31, E52, E58.

 
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a  European Central Bank
b  Independent