This paper studies the causal effect of inflation literacy on inflation expectations and trust in the central bank …, we first test the effect of non-numerical information about inflation and monetary policy, the literacy treatment. In the … the literacy treatment, incorporate quantitative information differently into their inflation forecasts. We find that the …

In recent years the world’s two largest inflation-targeting central banks – the US Federal Reserve (the Fed) and the …, both revisions quickly became antiquated when inflation started to rise again in the wake of the pandemic. The change in … macroeconomic context (from stubbornly low inflation to persistent higher inflation) led both central banks to advocate ‘policy …

An apparent disconnect has taken place between inflation and economic activity in the US over the last 25 years, with … price inflation remaining remarkably stable in spite of large fluctuations in the output gap and other measures of economic … unconditional variation in US macro data into the components driven by demand and supply disturbances, and confront the inflation …

have become frequent and inflation has returned. This raises the question how sector-specific shocks are related to overall … pre-pandemic average price volatilities and the price shocks in the COVID-19 and Ukraine war inflation yield an almost …

The dominant view of inflation holds that it is macroeconomic in origin and must always be tackled with macroeconomic … tightening. In contrast, we argue that the US COVID-19 inflation is predominantly a sellers' inflation that derives from … trying to fend off real wage declines in the conflict stage. We argue that such sellers' inflation generates a general price …