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title: Sector-Specific Household Inflation Uncertainty and Monetary Policy
url: https://www.ml-quant.com/papers/repec/awi-wpaper-0772/
site: ML-Quant (https://www.ml-quant.com)
updated: 2026-11-14
license: Summaries CC BY 4.0; links go to the original sources
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identifier: RePEc:awi:wpaper:0772
source_url: https://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:awi:wpaper:0772
featured: 2026-11-13
citations: unknown
topic: Econometrics & Forecasting
---


# Sector-Specific Household Inflation Uncertainty and Monetary Policy

The study links price dispersion in food and gasoline to household uncertainty and shows contractionary policy compresses this uncertainty, suggesting optimal policy should vary by sector.

- Source: https://econpapers.repec.org/RePEc:awi:wpaper:0772
- Identifier: RePEc:awi:wpaper:0772
- Released: 2026-11-09
- First featured: Quant Letter No. 139 (2026-11-13): https://www.ml-quant.com/issues/2026-11-13/
- Citations (Semantic Scholar): not tracked
- Published in: not yet
- Topic: Econometrics & Forecasting
- Authors: Schnattinger, Philip, Srivastava, Prachi

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