Concerns about inflation are increasingly becoming a topic of public debate again. After an extended period of low … inflation, inflation rates have now risen again, partly due to special effects occurring at the same time. This raises questions … Office and data on household consumption behavior from the sample survey on income and consumption (EVS) serve as the …

We examine the consumer price inflation experiences of Australian households across the income distribution using … – 2018, we find that the lowest income households have experienced the largest inflation and those at the top have … experienced the least inflation. These differences in inflation experience are completely driven by alcohol and tobacco. When we …