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Fear of the Dark: Inflation Experiences and Subjective Well-being

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  • Cupák, Andrej
  • Širaňová, Mária

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In this paper, we estimate the impact of past inflation experiences (à la Malmendier and Wachter, 2023) on people's current level of utility as revealed by their subjective well-being. Combining detailed EU-level Household Finance and Consumption Survey microdata and lifetime experienced inflation, we provide novel evidence that individual households who have experienced higher historical inflation report significantly lower current life satisfaction scores, even after controlling for a large set of socio-economic characteristics and household wealth and income levels. However, for the old EU countries sample, individual households appear to derive higher subjective well-being from modest inflation up to around 2.6%.

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  • Cupák, Andrej & Širaňová, Mária, 2023. "Fear of the Dark: Inflation Experiences and Subjective Well-being," Economics Letters, Elsevier, vol. 233(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:ecolet:v:233:y:2023:i:c:s0165176523004603
    DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2023.111434
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    Keywords

    Behavioral finance; Household finance; Experience effects; Inflation; Subjective well-being; Life satisfaction;
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    JEL classification:

    • D83 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief; Unawareness
    • D91 - Microeconomics - - Micro-Based Behavioral Economics - - - Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making
    • G41 - Financial Economics - - Behavioral Finance - - - Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making in Financial Markets
    • E31 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Price Level; Inflation; Deflation
    • G50 - Financial Economics - - Household Finance - - - General
    • I30 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty - - - General

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