often. According to recent hypotheses on perceived inflation (Brachinger, 2005a), the public furthermore perceives price … more difficult for consumers to become used to prices in euro. Perceived inflation proved to be unexpectedly persistent: It … was not until the beginning of 2005 that the gap between perceived inflation and actual inflation was more or less closed …

The effect of frequency of subjective experience of price increases on perceived inflation, i.e. the subjective … perceived inflation judgment. In the integration phase, the complexity of the task should trigger heuristic processing: higher … frequency of price increases should enhance their availability and thus perceived inflation. Participants simulated purchases in …