WP - 2026-11-04 - Simon Beyeler: Forecasting the post-COVID inflation surge in Switzerland
The surge in inflation after the COVID-19 pandemic caught forecasters and policy makers by surprise: shocks treated as transitory turned out to be persistent, producing large forecast errors. Watson (2026) asks whether the U.S. surge could instead have been recognised as persiste
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