@techreport{NBERw3555, title = "Credible Disinflation with Staggered Price Setting", author = "Laurence Ball", institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research", type = "Working Paper", series = "Working Paper Series", number = "3555", year = "1990", month = "December", URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w3555", abstract = {This paper determines the real effects of credible disinflation when price setting is staggered. The results are surprising: a fairly quick disinflation causes a boom. This finding suggests that nominal price rigidity alone does not explain why disinflation is costly in actual economies.}, }