investigates the implications of euro adoption in the Slovak Republic for inflation and interest rates with an attempt to quantify … raise the Slovak inflation rate above the euro area level. As capital markets have already fully priced in euro membership …In January 2009, the Slovak Republic will adopt the euro and become the 16th member of the euro area. This paper …

Inflation indices – such as the national Consumer Price Indices (CPI) and the EU Harmonised Indices of Consumer Prices … (HICP) – measure price changes for the overall economy, which may not reflect the inflation experience of an individual … household or group of households. This paper contributes to previous studies of the distributive impact of recent high inflation …

We study the redistributive effects of inflation combining administrative bank data with an information provision … experiment during an episode of historic inflation. On average, households are well-informed about prevailing inflation and are … concerned about its impact on their wealth; yet, while many households know about inflation eroding nominal assets, most are …