Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/162171 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
Research Papers in Economics No. 3/17
Publisher: 
Universität Trier, Fachbereich IV – Volkswirtschaftslehre, Trier
Abstract: 
Using three waves of a customised survey among Dutch households, this paper studies the variation in people's views on inflation. Based on a range of panel regressions, we find that accurate perceptions of recent price changes are an important determinant of the accuracy of next-year inflation expectations. The realism of inflation perceptions is, in turn, related to the intensity of newspaper consumption and also affected by the broadness of a person's political preferences. However, more frequent newspaper usage does not necessarily reduce errors in inflation perceptions.
Subjects: 
inflation expectations
inflation perceptions
newspaper readership
politicalpreferences
household survey data
JEL: 
D12
D83
D84
E31
E58
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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