Bordo, Michael; Erceg, Christopher; Levin, Andrew; … - Federal Reserve Board (Board of Governors of the … - 2007
This paper analyzes the role of transparency and credibility in accounting for the widely divergent macroeconomic effects of three episodes of deliberate monetary contraction: the post-Civil War deflation, the post-WWI deflation, and the Volcker disinflation. Using a dynamic general equilibrium...