Not all price increases are equal; pandemic-era outliers drove inflation spike

Braden Strackman and Mark Wynne

Dallas Fed Economics from Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

Abstract: Many individual price changes make up widely used gauges of inflation. Their relative importance changes over time and may affect how consumers perceive inflation. Such perceptions can prompt households to update their inflation expectations, decreasing optimism about real economic activity.

Keywords: inflation; COVID-19; monetary policy; Consumer Price Index (CPI) (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024-06-18
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