Inflation affects the purchasing power of households. This paper documents large, idiosyncratic inflation differences … between households in their everyday shopping. Low-income households have experienced higher inflation in the last ten years … inflation differences within countries. Between countries, multinational retail chains not only differentiate products by …

We examine the consumer price inflation experiences of Australian households across the income distribution using … – 2018, we find that the lowest income households have experienced the largest inflation and those at the top have … experienced the least inflation. These differences in inflation experience are completely driven by alcohol and tobacco. When we …

Inflation rates have traditionally been measured by the annualized percentage change in the price level of a market … household. However, households differ in their spending patterns and there are differences in the price changes of various goods … and services. Therefore, different households experience different inflation rates. This paper finds that these …

This paper investigates the response of consumer price inflation to changes in domestic fuel prices, looking at the … different categories of the overall consumer price index (CPI). We then combine household survey data with the CPI components to … findings stand out. First, the response of inflation to gasoline price shocks is smaller, but more persistent and broad …