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Nominal Exchange Rate Anchoring Under Inflation Inertia

By Guillermo Calvo, Michael Kumhof, Oya Celasun

February 1, 2002

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Guillermo Calvo, Michael Kumhof, and Oya Celasun. Nominal Exchange Rate Anchoring Under Inflation Inertia, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2002) accessed November 8, 2024
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Summary

This paper develops a theory of inflation inertia based on forward looking staggered price setting in the nontradable goods sector of a small open economy. Unlike current theories of sticky prices, transitions to a lower steady state inflation rate take time even if they are fully credible, and they are associated with significant output losses in nontradables There is a welfare trade-off between these output losses and the gains from smaller inflationary distortions. Gains exceed losses for most calibrations. The optimal steady state is the Friedman rule.

Subject: Consumption, Exchange rates, Foreign exchange, Inflation, National accounts, Prices, Real exchange rates, Sticky prices

Keywords: Consumption, Emerging market, Exchange rate based stabilization, Exchange rates, Inflation, Inflation inertia, Inflation stabilization, Open economy, Price level, Rate depreciation, Rate of exchange, Real exchange rates, Staggered pricing, Sticky prices, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    36

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2002/030

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA0302002

  • ISBN:

    9781451844924

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

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