This paper examines the relationship between in ‡ation and in ‡ation expectations of analysts, business, and trade unions in South Africa during the in ‡ation targeting (IT) regime. We consider in ‡ation expectations based on the Bureau of Economic Research (BER) quarterly survey observed from 2000Q1 to 2013Q1. We estimate in ‡ation expectations of individual agents as the weighted average of lagged in ‡ation and the in ‡ation target. The results indicate that expectations are heterogeneous across agents. Expectations of price setters (business and unions) are closely related to each other and are higher than the upper bound of the of…cial target band, while expectations of analysts are within the target band. In addition, expectations of price setters are somewhat related to lagged in ‡ation and the opposite is true for analysts. The results reveal that the SARB has succesfully anchored expectations of analysts but that price setters have not su¢ ciently used the focal point implicit in the in ‡ation targeting regime. The implication is that the SARB may be pushed to accommodate private agents'expectations.JEL Classi…cation Numbers: C51, E52, E58.

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