The effects of a central bank's inflation forecasts on private sector forecasts: Recent evidence from Japan
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- Masazumi Hattori & Steven Kong & Frank Packer & Toshitaka Sekine, 2016. "The effects of a central bank's inflation forecasts on private sector forecasts: Recent evidence from Japan," Bank of Japan Working Paper Series 16-E-11, Bank of Japan.
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Keywords
central bank communication; Bank of Japan; inflation forecast; inflation targeting;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- E31 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Price Level; Inflation; Deflation
- E52 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Monetary Policy
- E58 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Central Banks and Their Policies
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CBA-2016-10-16 (Central Banking)
- NEP-MAC-2016-10-16 (Macroeconomics)
- NEP-MON-2016-10-16 (Monetary Economics)
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