Contacts, Credibility and Common Knowledge : Their Influenceon Inflation Convergence /

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, whic...

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Tác giả chính: Miller, Marcus
Tác giả khác: Sutherland, Alan
Định dạng: Tạp chí
Ngôn ngữ:English
Được phát hành: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1992.
Loạt:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1992/026
Truy cập trực tuyến:Full text available on IMF
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