Arbeitspapier

Households’ Inflation Perceptions and Expectations: Survey Evidence from New Zealand

In this paper, we study how inflation is viewed by the general population of New Zealand. Based on unique representative survey data collected in 2016 and using descriptive statistics and multivariate regressions, we explore various aspects of how laypersons perceive inflation and form inflation expectations. We focus on how an individual’s economic situation, information search and interest in inflation, economic knowledge, and attitudes and values are related to inflation perception and expectation, as well as the individual’s reaction to them. We interpret our findings as a clear indication that laypersons’ knowledge about inflation is much better described by the imperfect information view prevailing in social psychology than by the rational actor view typically assumed in economics.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: ifo Working Paper ; No. 255

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Monetary Policy
Central Banks and Their Policies
Cultural Economics; Economic Sociology; Economic Anthropology: General
Thema
Inflation perception
inflation expectation
New Zealand
monetary policy
household survey.

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Hayo, Bernd
Neumeier, Florian
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich
(wo)
Munich
(wann)
2018

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:43 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Hayo, Bernd
  • Neumeier, Florian
  • ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich

Entstanden

  • 2018

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