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dc.contributor.author | Lein, Sarah M. | en |
dc.contributor.author | Maag, Thomas | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2008-10-30 | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-10-06T15:39:59Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2011-10-06T15:39:59Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2008 | - |
dc.identifier.pi | doi:10.3929/ethz-a-005666792 | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/50341 | - |
dc.description.abstract | This paper investigates how households form their perceptions of consumer price inflation. Using data from the harmonized EU consumer survey, we find that inflation perceptions are inefficient and highly heterogeneous, yet contemporaneously related to the actual rate of inflation. Consequently, we estimate how often households update their beliefs employing Carroll's (2003) epidemiological model. Our results indicate that inflation perceptions are generally less responsive to new information than expectations. Unlike studies on expectations, we cannot confirm that a constant fraction of the population updates information every month. Also, the cross-sectional heterogeneity of perceptions is higher than implied by infrequent updating alone. | en |
dc.language.iso | eng | en |
dc.publisher | |aETH Zurich, KOF Swiss Economic Institute |cZurich | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | |aKOF Working Papers |x204 | en |
dc.subject.jel | E31 | en |
dc.subject.jel | E50 | en |
dc.subject.jel | D83 | en |
dc.subject.ddc | 330 | en |
dc.subject.keyword | inflation perceptions | en |
dc.subject.keyword | belief formation | en |
dc.subject.keyword | sticky information models | en |
dc.subject.stw | Inflation | en |
dc.subject.stw | Öffentliche Meinung | en |
dc.subject.stw | Informationsverhalten | en |
dc.subject.stw | EU-Staaten | en |
dc.title | The formation of inflation perceptions: Some empirical facts for European countries | - |
dc.type | Working Paper | en |
dc.identifier.ppn | 584007418 | en |
dc.rights | http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen | en |
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