Kelly, Roger () (Monetary Policy Committee Unit, Bank of England)
Abstract
Two major events have affected the monetary regime in the United Kingdom in recent years, namely the introduction of inflation targeting, and the granting of operational independence to the Bank of England. In this paper we examine what impact, if any, these events have had on inflation expectations. A series of Granger causality tests are used in order to examine the causal relationship between a measure of prices and inflation expectations. We find evidence that the introduction of inflation targeting caused both the general public and professionals to anchor their expectations, rather than basing them on current RPI inflation.
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Paper provided by Monetary Policy Committee Unit, Bank of England in its series Discussion Papers with number
24.
Find related papers by JEL classification: D84 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Expectations; Speculations E31 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Price Level; Inflation; Deflation E58 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Central Banks and Their Policies
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