In the middle of 1985 Argentina and Israel launched frontal attacks on inflation. Both countries succeeded in reducing inflation drastically during the first year without very significant costs in terms of employment and output. Despite basic differences in the two countries` structures, the...

This paper seeks to identify what worked and what didn't work to stop inflation in Argentina in the last seventy years. The approach is descriptive rather than theoretical and examines the relative performance of the only ten stabilization plans that, during the period 1952-2015, lasted at least...