The shifts in household consumption caused by the coronavirus pandemic affect inflation measurement in the euro area … via the updating of product weights. We propose a decomposition of the inflation rate, measured by the annual percentage …, considering the evolution of measurement rules over time and marking differences to a decomposition into pure price change and …

How much does quality adjustment matter in measuring consumer price inflation? To address this question, we use … inflation only by 0.06 percentage points, which is balanced out by an increase due to quantity adjustment (e.g. a smaller … deriving the distribution of member states’ cumulative inflation rates for typical quality-adjusted products. Our macro …

systematically understated. The effect rests on overstated inflation estimates due to imputed prices for disappearing goods and …

Current HICP measurement practices produce an upward bias of about one-ninth of a percentage point in German inflation … the euro area HICP. The measurement of the German HICP is impaired by the extrapolation of expenditure weights, and the … consider this source of mismeasurement when assessing the precision of the HICP as a measure of "true" inflation. …

Our paper studies the relationship between money growth and consumer price inflation in the euro area using wavelet … analysis. Wavelet analysis allows to account for variations in the money growth-inflation relationship both across the … frequency spectrum and across time. We find evidence of strong comovements between money growth and inflation at low frequencies …

A major challenge for monetary policy has been predicting how exchange rate movements will impact inflation. We propose …