IMF Working Papers

Models of Inflation and the Costs of Disinflation

By Guy M Meredith, Bankim Chadha, Paul R Masson

October 1, 1991

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Guy M Meredith, Bankim Chadha, and Paul R Masson. Models of Inflation and the Costs of Disinflation, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1991) accessed September 20, 2024
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Summary

This paper focuses on the output costs of disinflation. A model of inflation with both forward and backward elements seems to characterize reality. Such an inflation model is estimated using data for industrial countries, and the output costs of a disinflation path are calculated, first analytically in a simple theoretical model, then by simulation of a global, multi-region empirical model. The credibility of a preannounced path for money consistent with the lowest output loss is considered. An alternative, more credible policy may be to announce an exchange rate peg to a low inflation currency.

Subject: Capacity utilization, Demand for money, Disinflation, Inflation, Monetary base, Money, Prices, Production

Keywords: Capacity utilization, Demand for money, Disinflation, Disinflation path, Disinflation program, Europe, Inflation, Inflation equation, Inflation stickiness, Monetary base, Money supply, Nominal interest rate, North America, Phased-in disinflation, Price level, Rate of inflation, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    34

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 1991/097

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA0971991

  • ISBN:

    9781451949483

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

Notes

Also published in Staff Papers, Vol. 39, No. 2, June 1992.

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