TY - UNPB
T1 - How Likely Is an Inflation Disaster?
AU - Hilscher, Jens
AU - Raviv, Alon
AU - Reis, Ricardo A.M.R.
PY - 2022/4/27
Y1 - 2022/4/27
N2 - Long-dated inflation swap contracts provide widely-used estimates of expected inflation. We develop methods to estimate complementary tail probabilities for persistently very high or low inflation using inflation options prices. We show that three new adjustments to conventional methods are crucial: inflation, horizon, and risk. An application of these methods finds: (i) US deflation risk in 2011-14 has been over-stated, (ii) ECB unconventional policies lowered the deflation disaster probability, (iii) inflation expectations deanchored in 2021-22, (iv) and reanchored as policy tightened, (v) but the 2021-24 disaster left scars, (vi) US expectations are less sensitive to inflation realizations than in the EZ. <br>
AB - Long-dated inflation swap contracts provide widely-used estimates of expected inflation. We develop methods to estimate complementary tail probabilities for persistently very high or low inflation using inflation options prices. We show that three new adjustments to conventional methods are crucial: inflation, horizon, and risk. An application of these methods finds: (i) US deflation risk in 2011-14 has been over-stated, (ii) ECB unconventional policies lowered the deflation disaster probability, (iii) inflation expectations deanchored in 2021-22, (iv) and reanchored as policy tightened, (v) but the 2021-24 disaster left scars, (vi) US expectations are less sensitive to inflation realizations than in the EZ. <br>
KW - Arrow-Debreu securities
KW - inflation derivatives
KW - option prices
U2 - 10.2139/ssrn.4083404
DO - 10.2139/ssrn.4083404
M3 - Preprint
BT - How Likely Is an Inflation Disaster?
ER -