The role of media for consumers' inflation expectation formation

Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization

Volumn 106, Issue , 2014, Pages 62-77

  Lamla, Michael J ^a,b   Lein, Sarah M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c SWISS NATIONAL BANK   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Imperfect information; Inflation expectation formation; Media

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904259794     PISSN: 01672681     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2014.05.004     Document Type: Article

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