Models of Inflation and the Costs of Disinflation

Author/Editor:

Guy M Meredith ; Bankim Chadha ; Paul R Masson

Publication Date:

October 1, 1991

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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.

Series:

Working Paper No. 1991/097

Subject:

Notes:

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

English

Publication Date:

October 1, 1991

ISBN/ISSN:

9781451949483/1018-5941

Stock No:

WPIEA0971991

Pages:

34

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