Burstein, Ariel; Eichenbaum, Martin; Rebelo, Sergio T. - University of Rochester - Center for Economic Research … - 2002
This paper studies the behavior of inflation after nine large post-1990 contractionary devaluations. A salient feature of the data is that inflation is low relative to the rate of devaluation. We argue that the distribution costs and substitution away from imports to lower quality local goods...