Rate Expectations: Inflation and Prices in the Public Mind

• In Event: Political Communication, Information, and Learning about Politics

Brief Overview

We know little about how people think about inflation and process information about it, and we field a series of survey experiments to assess relationships between inflation, prices, the broader economy, and hypothetical political judgments.

Authors

• John V. Victor Kane, New York University

• Christopher Wlezien, University of Texas at Austin