This paper discusses four potential sources of lag dynamics in inflation: non-rational behavior, staggered contracting …, frictions on price adjustment, and shifts in the long-run inflation anchor of agent expectations (the perceived inflation target …). Expressions for inflation dynamics from structural models which admit these different sources of lag dynamics are contrasted …

We propose a new approach to assessing the anchoring of inflation expectations using "strategic surveys". Namely, we … measure households' revisions in long-run inflation expectations after they are presented with different economic scenarios. A … key advantage of this approach is that it provides a causal interpretation in terms of how inflation events affect long …

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 …

This paper analyses the distributional impact of high consumer inflation in the euro area and government measures to … quantify the distributional impact of inflation, income support measures and measures aimed at containing prices. The analysis … confirms that purchasing power and welfare were more severely affected by the 2022 inflation surge in lower-income households …

Poor households report significantly higher inflation expectations than rich households. We assess, both theoretically … about aggregate inflation. Using data on shopping experiences, we show that the inflation expectations of each income group … depend on the group's past grocery experiences as well as on past aggregate inflation. To explain this finding, we build a …

We study redistributive effects of inflation across households with varying nominal wealth positions using a randomized … information experiment on clients of a large bank. On average, individuals are well informed about current levels of inflation and … are concerned about its impact on their wealth; yet, most individuals are not aware of how inflation erodes nominal asset …

Given the complexity of interaction between inflation and inequality, we examine whether the impact of inflation on … contemporaneous effect of inflation on the inequality which becomes stronger with higher levels of income inequality. However, over a … one year period, we find higher inflation rate to further increase income inequality only when income inequality is …