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Le spectre de la déflation. une revue des résultats empiriques .
Author(s) -
Smith Gregor W.
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
canadian journal of economics/revue canadienne d'économique
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.773
H-Index - 69
eISSN - 1540-5982
pISSN - 0008-4085
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-5982.2006.00381.x
Subject(s) - deflation , economics , inflation (cosmology) , keynesian economics , empirical evidence , monetary policy , positive economics , macroeconomics , epistemology , philosophy , physics , theoretical physics
What explains the widespread fear of deflation? This article reviews the history of thought, economic history, and empirical evidence on deflation, with a view to answering this question. It also outlines informally the main effects of deflation in applied monetary models. The main finding is that – for both historical and contemporary deflations – there are many open, empirical questions that could be answered using the tools economists use to study inflation and monetary policy more generally.