Expectations of inflation: The biasing effect of thoughts about specific prices

Journal of Economic Psychology

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 834-845

  Bruine de Bruin, Wändi ^a,b   van der Klaauw, Wilbert ^c   Topa, Giorgio ^c  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Inflation expectations; Memory bias; Perceptions of specific prices; Recall

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051794935     PISSN: 01674870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joep.2011.07.002     Document Type: Article

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