IMF Working Papers

Contacts, Credibility and Common Knowledge: Their Influenceon Inflation Convergence

By Marcus Miller, Alan Sutherland

March 1, 1992

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Marcus Miller, and Alan Sutherland. Contacts, Credibility and Common Knowledge: Their Influenceon Inflation Convergence, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1992) accessed November 8, 2024
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Summary

In this paper three possible reasons are examined for a sluggish inflation response to a hard currency peg. Models of overlapping wage contracts are analyzed and shown to generate little inertia. This contrasts with the effects of government credibility and the speed of private sector learning, which are shown to have a major impact on the speed of inflation adjustment. But even if individual agents believe the government will not devalue, it is shown that inflation inertia can still arise if these expectations are not common knowledge.

Subject: Conventional peg, Economic theory, Exchange rates, Foreign exchange, Inflation, Inflation persistence, Prices, Rational expectations

Keywords: Conventional peg, Current price price level, Exchange rate, Exchange rate peg, Exchange rates, Inflation, Inflation inertia, Inflation persistence, Price level, Price level jump, Price level rate, Price level rising, Rational expectations, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    24

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 1992/026

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA0261992

  • ISBN:

    9781451981773

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

Notes

Also published in Staff Papers, Vol. 40, No. 1, March 1993.

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