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Stability of Costa Rican Inflation Expectations

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  • Carlos Segura-Rodriguez

    (Department of Economic Research, Central Bank of Costa Rica)

  • Andrea Collado-Chaves

    (Department of Economic Research, Central Bank of Costa Rica)

Abstract

This article studies whether the average inflation expectation from the Central Bank of Costa Rica (BCCR by its initials in Spanish) Encuesta de expectativas de inflación y tipo de cambio are stable. By stability we refer to the fact that these short-term expectations’ behavior is unrelated to the inflation´s behavior, and that the dispersion of the respondents’ report is small. We use a broad range of techniques that have been developed in the literature to study this phenomenon. We obtain as main conclusion that inflation expectations are not yet stable, though they have become more stable during the last years. However, the expectations’ stability seems to be a result of the respondents preferring a simple forecast method to form their expectations as using the inflation target as their forecast, rather than a stronger trust of the agents in the BCCR. ***Resumen: Este artículo analiza si la expectativa promedio mensual de la Encuesta de expectativas de inflación y tipo de cambio del Banco Central de Costa Rica (BCCR) es estable. Por estabilidad se entiende que las expectativas de inflación de corto plazo (12 meses) y la inflación, tienen un comportamiento independiente, y que la dispersión de los valores que indican los informantes es pequeña. Se utiliza un conjunto amplio de técnicas que se han desarrollado en la literatura con dicho fin. La principal conclusión es que la expectativa de inflación de la Encuesta no es estable, aunque ha tendido a estabilizarse durante los últimos años. Sin embargo, la estabilidad de las expectativas parece no ser reflejo de un aumento en la confianza de los agentes en el BCCR, sino que los informantes prefieren indicar la meta de inflación en vez de usar métodos de pronóstico de formación de expectativas más complejos.

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  • Carlos Segura-Rodriguez & Andrea Collado-Chaves, 2021. "Stability of Costa Rican Inflation Expectations," Notas Técnicas 2101, Banco Central de Costa Rica.
  • Handle: RePEc:apk:nottec:2101
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    JEL classification:

    • E31 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Price Level; Inflation; Deflation
    • E44 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy
    • E52 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Monetary Policy
    • F31 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - Foreign Exchange
    • D84 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Expectations; Speculations

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