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Inflation expectations in action : exploring agents' behaviour in a period of high inflation / Naveen Rai, Hayley Touchburn, Matt West.FB3-6/2025-18E-PDF

"Inflation expectations are important to monetary policy decision-makers. The period of high inflation after the pandemic provides a useful context for exploring how inflation expectations influence the behaviours of firms and consumers. Using survey evidence, we examine how firms and consumers react to their inflation expectations. We find that firm price- and wage-setting behaviours were positively associated with high inflation expectations over the period. These behaviours could reinforce inflation. Consumers' spending and labour market decisions tend to show increased labour supply and reduced consumption in response to high inflation expectations, which could cool rather than reinforce future inflation"--Abstract, page ii.

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Department/Agency
  • Bank of Canada, issuing body.
TitleInflation expectations in action : exploring agents' behaviour in a period of high inflation / Naveen Rai, Hayley Touchburn, Matt West.
Series title
  • Staff discussion paper = Document d'analyse du personnel, 1914-0568 ; 2025-18
Publication typeMonograph - View Master Record
Language[English]
FormatDigital text
Electronic document
Note(s)
  • ISSN assigned to different series.
  • "Last updated: December 17, 2025."
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 20-22).
  • Includes abstracts in English and French.
Publishing information
  • [Ottawa] : Bank of Canada = Banque du Canada, 2025.
  • ©2025
Author / Contributor
  • Rai, Naveen, author.
Description1 online resource (ii, 31 pages) : illustrations (chiefly colour).
Catalogue number
  • FB3-6/2025-18E-PDF
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