This paper provides new survey evidence on firms’ inflation expectations in the euroarea. Building on the ECB’s Survey on the Access to Finance of Enterprises (SAFE),we introduce consistent measurement of inflation expectations across countries andshed new light on the properties and causal effects of these expectations. We findconsiderable heterogeneity in firms’ inflation expectations and show that firmsdisagree about future inflation more than professional forecasters but less thanho
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