Supply-Side Effects of Disinflation Programs
Supply-Side Effects of Disinflation Programs

Author: Mr.Jorge Roldos

Publisher: International Monetary Fund

Published: 1994-07-01

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 1451954425

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This paper focuses on the short-run and long-run supply-side effects of disinflation programs in a two-sector economy. Fixing the exchange rate reduces the wedge between the return on foreign assets and that on domestic capital, leading to an increase in the latter. After an initial real exchange rate appreciation and increase in the production of nontradables—due to a consumption boom—the new capital is gradually installed in the tradable sector. During this transitional period, further real appreciation takes place—as the expansion of the tradable sector pulls labor away from the nontradable sector—together with investment-driven deficits in the current account. We conclude that when appreciation and deficits are due to supply-side rigidities, rather than to credibility and/or price stickiness, no further policies (i.e., capital controls, incomes policies) are advisable.

Disinflation and the Supply Side
Disinflation and the Supply Side

Author: Lodovico Pizzati

Publisher:

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 39

ISBN-13:

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What role do supply-side factors play in the dynamics of output and absorption in exchange rate-based stabilization programs?AgEnor and Pizzati study the dynamics of output, consumption, and real wages induced by a disinflation program based on permanent and temporary reductions in the nominal devaluation rate.They use an intertemporal optimizing model of a small open economy in which domestic households face imperfect world capital markets, the labor supply is endogenous, and wages are flexible.The model predicts that, with a constant capital stock and no investment, there is an initial reduction in real wages and output expands. Consumption falls on impact but increases afterward.In addition, with a temporary shock, a current account deficit emerges and, later, a recession sets in, as documented in various studies.With endogenous capital accumulation, numerical simulations show that the model can also predict a boom in investment.This paper is a product of the Economic Policy and Poverty Reduction Division, World Bank Institute. The authors may be contacted at [email protected] and [email protected].

Disinflation and the Supply Side
Disinflation and the Supply Side

Author: Pierre-Richard Agénor

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 38

ISBN-13: 4060532525

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What role do supply-side factors play in the dynamics of output and absorption in exchange rate-based stabilization programs?

Supply-Side Effects of Disinflation Programs
Supply-Side Effects of Disinflation Programs

Author: Jorge Roldós

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13:

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This paper focuses on the short-run and long-run supply-side effects of disinflation programs in a two-sector economy. Fixing the exchange rate reduces the wedge between the return on foreign assets and that on domestic capital, leading to an increase in the latter. After an initial real exchange rate appreciation and increase in the production of nontradables--due to a consumption boom--the new capital is gradually installed in the tradable sector. During this transitional period, further real appreciation takes place--as the expansion of the tradable sector pulls labor away from the nontradable sector--together with investment-driven deficits in the current account. We conclude that when appreciation and deficits are due to supply-side rigidities, rather than to credibility and/or price stickiness, no further policies (i.e., capital controls, incomes policies) are advisable.

Economic Policy and the Great Stagflation
Economic Policy and the Great Stagflation

Author: Alan S. Blinder

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2013-09-11

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 1483264564

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Economic Policy and the Great Stagflation discusses the national economic policy and economics as a policy-oriented science. This book summarizes what economists do and do not know about the inflation and recession that affected the U.S. economy during the years of the Great Stagflation in the mid-1970s. The topics discussed include the basic concepts of stagflation, turbulent economic history of 1971-1976, anatomy of the great recession and inflation, and legacy of the Great Stagflation. The relation of wage-price controls, fiscal policy, and monetary policy to the Great Stagflation is also elaborated. This publication is beneficial to economists and students researching on the history of the Great Stagflation and policy errors of the 1970s.

Disinflation in Spain
Disinflation in Spain

Author: Mr.Nicolas Sobczak

Publisher: International Monetary Fund

Published: 1998-08-01

Total Pages: 31

ISBN-13: 145185286X

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This paper investigates the causes of the recent disinflation in Spain. A standard Phillips curve model is used to disentangle the contributions of three possible shocks: an adverse demand shock that raises unemployment, a positive supply shock resulting from relative price adjustments or structural improvements in the labor market, and a credibility shock that lowers inflationary expectations. The main element underlying Spain’s recent disinflation appears to be a fall in inflation expectations, thanks to the country’s commitment to participate in Economic and Monetary Union from the start, and policy actions geared to that end.

The Analytics of Credible Exchange-Rate-Based Disinflation When Money Facilitates Firms' Transactions
The Analytics of Credible Exchange-Rate-Based Disinflation When Money Facilitates Firms' Transactions

Author: Martín Uribe

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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This paper makes three contributions to the supply-side theory of the real effects of exchange-rate-based disinflation: First, the empirical relevance of the supply-side hypothesis has been questioned on the grounds of its reliance on the assumption that purchases of investment goods are subject to a cash-in-advance constraint. This paper replaces this assumption with a more realistic one that assigns money the role of facilitating firms' transactions (such as sales and payments to factor inputs). A formal correspondence is shown to exist between the model proposed in this paper and the one in which investment is a cash good. Second, the implications of the supply-side hypothesis are derived under much weaker restrictions on preferences, technologies, and initial conditions than in existing studies. Third, equilibrium dynamics are characterized without resorting to linear approximation techniques, which are invalid in the context of the theoretical framework used in the literature on exchange-rate-based stabilization, namely, small open economy models with a constant subjective rate of discount and an exogenous world real interest rate.

Inflation and Unemployment
Inflation and Unemployment

Author: Victor E. Argy

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-20

Total Pages: 444

ISBN-13: 1317216784

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Originally published in 1985 and contributed to by internationally renowned economists, this volume discusses theoretical issues and country-specific experiences to review the underlying causes of the stagflation of the 1970s and early 1980s, as well as summarizing the kinds of macro-policies that were adopted to deal with the stagflation.

Inflation Expectations
Inflation Expectations

Author: Peter J. N. Sinclair

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2009-12-16

Total Pages: 402

ISBN-13: 1135179778

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Inflation is regarded by the many as a menace that damages business and can only make life worse for households. Keeping it low depends critically on ensuring that firms and workers expect it to be low. So expectations of inflation are a key influence on national economic welfare. This collection pulls together a galaxy of world experts (including Roy Batchelor, Richard Curtin and Staffan Linden) on inflation expectations to debate different aspects of the issues involved. The main focus of the volume is on likely inflation developments. A number of factors have led practitioners and academic observers of monetary policy to place increasing emphasis recently on inflation expectations. One is the spread of inflation targeting, invented in New Zealand over 15 years ago, but now encompassing many important economies including Brazil, Canada, Israel and Great Britain. Even more significantly, the European Central Bank, the Bank of Japan and the United States Federal Bank are the leading members of another group of monetary institutions all considering or implementing moves in the same direction. A second is the large reduction in actual inflation that has been observed in most countries over the past decade or so. These considerations underscore the critical – and largely underrecognized - importance of inflation expectations. They emphasize the importance of the issues, and the great need for a volume that offers a clear, systematic treatment of them. This book, under the steely editorship of Peter Sinclair, should prove very important for policy makers and monetary economists alike.