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Why Are Rates of Inflation So Low After Large Devaluations?

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Ariel Burstein (Northwestern University)
Martin Eichenbaum (Northwestern University and NBER and Federal Reserve Chicago)
Sergio T. Rebelo () (Northwestern University and NBER and CEPR)

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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 can account quantitatively for the post-devaluation behavior of prices.

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Paper provided by University of Rochester - Center for Economic Research (RCER) in its series RCER Working Papers with number 486.

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Date of creation: Jan 2002
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Keywords: inflation devaluation exchange rates

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