NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH
NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH

Reducing Inflation: Motivation and Strategy

Christina D. Romer and David H. Romer, Editors

Conference held January 11-13, 1996
Published in January 1997 by University of Chicago Press
© 1997 by the National Bureau of Economic Research
in NBER Book Series Studies in Business Cycles

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431 pages
ISBN: 0-226-72484-0

Table of Contents

1. Front matter, "Reducing Inflation.Motivation and Strategy": Christina D. Romer, David H. Romer (p. -12 - 0) (bibliographic info) (download)

Introduction: Christina D. Romer, David H. Romer (p. 1 - 12) (bibliographic info) (download)

2. Why Do People Dislike Inflation?: Robert J. Shiller (p. 13 - 70) (bibliographic info) (download)

3. Does Inflation “Grease the Wheels of the Labor Market”?: David Card, Dean Hyslop (p. 71 - 122) (bibliographic info) (download)

4. The Costs and Benefits of Going from Low Inflation to Price Stability: Martin S. Feldstein (p. 123 - 166) (bibliographic info) (download)

5. Disinflation and the NAIRU: Laurence M. Ball (p. 167 - 194) (bibliographic info) (download)

6. How Precise Are Estimates of the Natural Rate of Unemployment?: Douglas O. Staiger, James H. Stock, Mark W. Watson (p. 195 - 246) (bibliographic info) (download)

7. America’s Peacetime Inflation: The 1970s: J. Bradford DeLong (p. 247 - 280) (bibliographic info) (download)

8. Do “Shortages” Cause Inflation?: Owen Lamont (p. 281 - 306) (bibliographic info) (download)

9. Institutions for Monetary Stability: Christina D. Romer, David H. Romer (p. 307 - 334) (bibliographic info) (download)

10. Why Does Inflation Differ across Countries?: Marta Campillo, Jeffrey A. Miron (p. 335 - 362) (bibliographic info) (download)

11. How the Bundesbank Conducts Monetary Policy: Richard H. Clarida, Mark Gertler (p. 363 - 412) (bibliographic info) (download)

12. Contributors: (p. 413 - 414) (bibliographic info) (download)

13. Name Index: (p. 415 - 418) (bibliographic info) (download)

14. Subject Index: (p. 419 - 421) (bibliographic info) (download)

 
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