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High Inflation: Resource Misallocations and Growth Effects

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High inflation disrupts the organization of markets. This paper relates those “Industrial Organization” effects of inflation to the poor growth performance of high-inflation economies, in the context of a Schumpeterian growth model.
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  • Mariano Tommasi, 1993. "High Inflation: Resource Misallocations and Growth Effects," UCLA Economics Working Papers 704, UCLA Department of Economics.
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