ECB has too much faith in long-term inflation expectations

The key remaining barrier to bolder ECB policy support seems to be the Governing Council’s viewthat long-term inflation expectations are “well-anchored”. We have doubts over the usefulness ofsuch measures and expect the Bank to implement quantitative easing around the turn of the year aseither inflation expectations fall or inflation itself remains dangerously low regardless of expectations.

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