Arbeitspapier
Disinflations in Latin America and the Caribbean: A free lunch?
This paper challenges the conventional view according to which disinflations in LAC-even from low and moderate peaks-have been carried out at no cost to output. After suggesting a new methodology that allows for long-lived effects and inflation inertia when measuring costs of disinflations, large sacrifice ratios are obtained for the 1970s and 80s. Nevertheless, a new puzzle arises: disinflation costs in the 90s are negative, even with the new methodology. It is shown that an unusual combination of circumstances-i.e. capital inflows, structural reforms and the peculiar recent inflation history-can explain that fortunate result. Moreover, it is shown that LAC episodes exhibit a larger speed than G7 experiences. That speed differential explains why disinflation costs in developed nations are on average larger than LAC’s.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Working Paper ; No. 506
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Price Level; Inflation; Deflation
Business Fluctuations; Cycles
Monetary Policy
Economic Growth of Open Economies
Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics: General
- Thema
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Inflation
Growth
Disinflation costs
Inflationsbekämpfung
Wirtschaftswachstum
Lateinamerika
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Hofstetter, Marc
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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The Johns Hopkins University, Department of Economics
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Baltimore, MD
- (wann)
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2004
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ
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- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Hofstetter, Marc
- The Johns Hopkins University, Department of Economics
Entstanden
- 2004
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