The European Central Bank hopes to publish a new series of questions about firms’ expectations for consumer price inflation as part of its Survey on the Access to Finance of Enterprises next year, and to increase the frequency of SAFE to quarterly from twice a year, ECB senior lead economist Annalisa Ferrando told MNI. A quarterly SAFE will better coordinate it with the ECB’s Bank Lending Survey, Ferrando said in an MNI podcast together with fellow senior lead economist Petra Kohler-Ulbrich.
