Inflation expectations not a major concern for ECB

Financial market-based measures of inflation expectations have returned to pre-pandemic levels, but consumers’ and firms’ expectations are generally more subdued, and the increase in industrial firms’ expectations seems to be due to short-term supply problems. All this supports our view that temporary forces will push inflation above 2% later this year, before it then drops back in 2022.

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