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Would price-level targeting destabilise the economy?

When indexation is endogenous price level targeting slightly adds to economic stability, contrary to widespread fears to the contrary. The aggregate supply curve flattens and the aggregate demand curve steepens, increasing stability in the face of supply shocks.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Cardiff Economics Working Papers ; No. E2005/12

Classification
Wirtschaft
Price Level; Inflation; Deflation
Monetary Systems; Standards; Regimes; Government and the Monetary System; Payment Systems
Monetary Policy
Subject
Inflation
targeting
price-level rule
Price level target
indexation
monetary regime
endogenous contracts
stationarity
stability

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Minford, Patrick
Nowell, Eric
Webb, Bruce
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Cardiff University, Cardiff Business School
(where)
Cardiff
(when)
2005

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Minford, Patrick
  • Nowell, Eric
  • Webb, Bruce
  • Cardiff University, Cardiff Business School

Time of origin

  • 2005

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