Bond prices and market expectations of inflation

Quarterly Bulletin 1995 Q2
Published on 01 June 1995

By Francis Breedon.

Last November, a new method was introduced for deriving the inflation expectations that appear regularly in the Inflation Report from UK government bond prices. This article gives a description of the new method and assesses how well the expectations derived using it would have predicted inflation in the past. The data used are now available to researchers.

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