Inflation
Inflation is an average: behind a single figure, energy prices can soar while other prices fall. Read the price index item by item, distinguish the CPI from the HICP, provisional from final, and understand why central banks care about it. A free module, with dated and sourced figures.
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What you will be able to do
- Understand what the price index measures and read a year-on-year and month-on-month change
- Read inflation item by item, taking each item's weight in the basket into account
- Tell CPI from HICP, and the flash estimate from final results
- Tell headline inflation from core inflation
- Grasp why inflation matters for purchasing power, real rates and the ECB
Who it is for
Finance staff, students and anyone curious who wants to read and interpret an inflation figure correctly.
Prerequisites
No prerequisites.
Included
- Video with chapters
- PDF slides
- Marked quiz
- Verifiable certificate
Programme
- 01Inflation: the essentials
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