IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/wly/jmoncb/v58y2026i2p619-630.html

Expectations for Gasoline Prices and Inflation: Evidence from Households

Author

Listed:
  • CONSTANTIN BÜRGI
  • PRACHI SRIVASTAVA
  • KARL WHELAN

Abstract

Gasoline prices are highly salient to consumers and, for this reason, they may have an outsized influence on their thinking about inflation. We examine how people's expectations about gasoline prices influence their expectations for overall inflation. We find little evidence from two U.S. household surveys that people overreact to their beliefs about expected gasoline prices when formulating their expectations about overall inflation.

Suggested Citation

  • Constantin Bürgi & Prachi Srivastava & Karl Whelan, 2026. "Expectations for Gasoline Prices and Inflation: Evidence from Households," Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 58(2), pages 619-630, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:jmoncb:v:58:y:2026:i:2:p:619-630
    DOI: 10.1111/jmcb.13260
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/jmcb.13260
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1111/jmcb.13260?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:wly:jmoncb:v:58:y:2026:i:2:p:619-630. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Wiley Content Delivery (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0022-2879 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.