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Firms’ expectations and price-setting: evidence from micro data

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  • Boneva, Lena

    (Monetary Policy Committee Unit, Bank of England)

  • CLoyne, James

    (Monetary Policy Committee Unit, Bank of England)

  • Weale, Martin

    (Monetary Policy Committee Unit, Bank of England)

  • Wieladek, Tomasz

    (Monetary Policy Committee Unit, Bank of England)

Abstract

In many forward-looking macroeconomic models, such as the New Keynesian model, firms’ expectations about the future play a key role in determining outcomes today. We examine this hypothesis using a novel panel dataset on firms actual and expected price changes collected by the Confederation of British Industry. Our microeconometric approach overcomes the identification issues faced by previous empirical studies. The results suggest that firms’ expectations play a key role in their price-setting behaviour, with a coefficient on firm’s expectations consistent with the discount factor typically assumed in macroeconomic models.

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  • Boneva, Lena & CLoyne, James & Weale, Martin & Wieladek, Tomasz, 2016. "Firms’ expectations and price-setting: evidence from micro data," Discussion Papers 48, Monetary Policy Committee Unit, Bank of England.
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    Keywords

    Pricing-setting; survey data; inflation expectations; New Keynesian Phillips Curve;
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    JEL classification:

    • C23 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models
    • C26 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Instrumental Variables (IV) Estimation
    • E31 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Price Level; Inflation; Deflation

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