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 …

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 …

In this paper, we test whether public preferences for price stability (obtained from the Eurobarometer survey) are … central banks raise rates when society's inflation aversion is above its long-run trend. Second, the reaction to inflation is … non-linearly increasing in the degree of inflation aversion. Third, this emphasis on fighting inflation does not have a …

of their specific occupational background. Third, party members react significantly less to inflation and more to output …