In this paper we argue that future inflation in an economy depends on the way people perceive current inflation, their … inflation sentiment. We construct some simple measures of inflation sentiment which capture whether price acceleration is shared … by many components of the CPI basket. In a comparative analysis of the forecasting power of the different inflation …

This paper uses the newly constructed Luxembourg Wealth Study data to document cross-country variation in homeownership … rates and the homeownership-income inequality among young households in Finland, Germany, Italy, the UK and the US, and … relate it to cross-country differences in mortgage market maturity. We find that aside from Italy, homeownership rates and …