Matt Roberts-Sklar.

Inflation breakevens and inflation swap rates have fallen a lot in recent years. Big falls have often occurred amid deteriorating risk sentiment. This isn’t a new phenomenon. Looking across markets and time periods, I show that measures of financial market inflation compensation tend to fall when risk sentiment worsens. What’s more, this effect is asymmetric – inflation compensation doesn’t rise by as much when risk sentiment improves.

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