The ECB concluded its strategy review in 2021 with a plan to include owner-occupied housing (OOH) costs in its inflation measure in the future. This paper uses the Bundesbank's online household panel to study how household expectations would react to this change. We conducted a survey experiment...

The Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) co-exists with the national Consumer Price Index (CPI) as a key measure of inflation in Germany. Both indices are based on the same granular price data and uniform compilation methods at the lower levels of aggregation. However, differences arise at...

The Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) co-exists with the national Consumer Price Index (CPI) as a key measure of inflation in Germany. Both indices are based on the same granular price data and uniform compilation methods at the lower levels of aggregation. However, differences arise at...

The ECB concluded its strategy review in 2021 with a plan to include owner-occupied housing (OOH) costs in its inflation measure in the future. This paper uses the Bundesbank's online household panel to study how household expectations would react to this change. We conducted a survey experiment...

This study has adopted the actual household expenditure data from the national accountstoconstruct a true inflation rate (using the Fisher index) and found that the official inflationrateinthe 33 OECD countries was an overestimate of true inflation for 22 and underestimate in11countries in the...

This study has adopted the actual household expenditure data from the national accountstoconstruct a true inflation rate (using the Fisher index) and found that the official inflationrateinthe 33 OECD countries was an overestimate of true inflation for 22 and underestimate in11countries in the...