Bundesbank paper looks at German inflation expectations

Social media forms less realistic picture of current price levels than traditional news – researchers

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Media use and personal experience both shape households’ inflation expectations but in different ways, a working paper published by the Deutsche Bundesbank finds.

In The role of information and experience for households‘ inflation expectations, Christian Conrad, Zeno Enders and Alexander Glas use data from a new Bundesbank survey of German households.

The authors contributed two questions to the survey. They asked participants what sources of information they used to find out about European

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