Ellison, Martin; Yates, Tony - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
Why is inflation so much lower and at the same time more stable in developed economies in the 1990s, compared with the … inflation equilibrium. Our argument builds on the story proposed by Tom Sargent in The conquest of American inflation, where the … fall in inflation in the 1980s was attributed to the changing beliefs informing monetary policy. To explain the escape in …