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Title: Average Inflation Targeting and Household Expectations

Author(s): Olivier Coibion, Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Edward Knotek and Raphael Schoenle

Publication Date: September 2020

Keyword(s): communication, Inflation expectations, Inflation targeting, randomized controlled trial and Surveys

Programme Area(s): Monetary Economics and Fluctuations

Abstract: Using a daily survey of U.S. households, we study how the Federal Reserve's announcement of its new strategy of average inflation targeting affected households' expectations. Starting with the day of the announcement, there is a very small uptick in the minority of households reporting that they had heard news about monetary policy relative to prior to the announcement, but this effect fades within a few days. Those hearing news about the announcement do not seem to have understood the announcement: they are no more likely to correctly identify the Fed's new strategy than others, nor are their expectations different. When we provide randomly selected households with pertinent information about average inflation targeting, their expectations still do not change in a different way than when households are provided with information about traditional inflation targeting.

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Coibion, O, Gorodnichenko, Y, Knotek, E and Schoenle, R. 2020. 'Average Inflation Targeting and Household Expectations'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=15307