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 …

Unemployment is low and inflation is falling, but consumer sentiment remains depressed. This has confounded economists … official inflation are strongly correlated with borrowing costs and consumer credit supply. Concerns over borrowing costs … alternative measures of inflation that include borrowing costs and can account for almost three quarters of the gap in US consumer …

We study how investors respond to inflation combining a customized survey experiment with trading data at a time of … historically high inflation. Investors' beliefs about the stock return-inflation relation are very heterogeneous in the cross … section and on average too optimistic. Moreover, many investors appear unaware of inflation-hedging strategies despite being …

We measure the heterogeneous welfare effects of the recent inflation surge across households in the Euro Area. A simple … framework illustrating the numerous channels of the transmission mechanism of surprise inflation to household welfare guides our …; (ii) this inflation episode resembles an age-dependent tax, with the elderly losing up to 20%, and roughly half of the 25 …

fluctuations associated with these events are also discussed, as is their role in the recent surge of inflation, with a particular …

public finances. We show that when the ECB misses its inflation target this has large heterogeneous fiscal consequences for … missing their inflation targets. They are also sizeable …

One hallmark of U.S. monetary policy since the early 1980s has been moderation in inflation (at least, until recently …). How has this affected household well-being? The paper first develops a new model to address this issue. The inflation tax … long as inflation is positive). The inflation gain on household wealth is the revaluation resulting from asset price …

income, and the responsiveness of aggregate earnings, asset prices and inflation to monetary policy shocks. We quantify all …

1974 to 2017. We find that the official annual inflation rate understates welfare-relevant inflation for the poorest …

of inflation. The first part of the paper considers the ways in which the EMU is likely to affect inflation and cyclical …