Inflation Expectations, Learning, and Supermarket Prices: Evidence from Survey Experiments
Inflation Expectations, Learning, and Supermarket Prices: Evidence from Survey Experiments
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Pittsburgh: American Economic Association
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English
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Pittsburgh: American Economic Association
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Information frictions play a central role in the formation of household inflation expectations, but there is no consensus about their origins. We address this question with novel evidence from survey experiments. We document two main findings. First, individuals in low inflation contexts have significantly weaker priors about the inflation rate. Th...
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Inflation Expectations, Learning, and Supermarket Prices: Evidence from Survey Experiments
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_1914550312
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1945-7707
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1945-7715
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10.1257/mac.20150147
