Are inflation expectations really so important?

Inflation expectations may not be quite as important an influence on actual inflation as the Monetary Policy Committee appears to believe. Accordingly, there is a danger that the Committee keeps interest rates unnecessarily high while it waits for inflation expectations to fall, with damaging consequences for the real economy.

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