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The author's subject of interest is how to verify a problem, very often presented in the contemporary macroeconomy: to what extend the inflationary expectations of economics entities per se creates inflation. The possibility of implementation of these interests have appeared in connection with the business outlook studies in trade, which have been concluded in the Research Institute of Economics Development of the Warsaw School of Economics since the last quarter of 1993. In the studies of quantitative group of state-owned enterprises not only present their economic conditions but also make a prognosis in this respect, including price changes. The survey conducted shows that the prognosis made by a considerable percentage of trading firms that the price increase rate will be maintained or even accelerated, were proved by actual figures.