Inflation affects the purchasing power of households. This paper documents large, idiosyncratic inflation differences … between households in their everyday shopping. Low-income households have experienced higher inflation in the last ten years … inflation differences within countries. Between countries, multinational retail chains not only differentiate products by …

synchronized within rather than across stores. Time variations in inflation can be attributed mainly to variations in the frequency …

be synchronized within rather than across stores. Time variations in inflation can be attributed mainly to variations in …

-to-consumer ecommerce for prices and inflation in the euro area. It highlights three key results. First, whether online prices and inflation …. Moreover, properly selected online prices track official inflation indices even in real time. Second, the effect of e …-commerce on inflation appears to be transient and differs between countries. However, as the penetration of some markets is still …

We analyse the adjustment of retail and services prices in a period of low inflation, using a set of individual price …

We analyse the adjustment of retail and services prices in a period of low inflation, using a set of individual price …

inflation compared to industries with low-competition in the past few years. Further investigation shows that this …-competition have higher annual producer price inflation on average than those that are characterized with high-competition especially …

inflation should differ between inflation and deflation episodes, using data for Japan and Hong Kong. We use a random cross … both the inflation and deflation periods, and the parameter on the second moment changes sign in the deflation period, as … the theory predicts. Keywords: inflation, deflation, menu costs, Hong Kong, Japan. …

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 …