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Contracting costs, inflation, and relative price variability

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  • Patricia Reagan
  • Rene M. Stulz

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This paper provides an analysis of the effect of relative price uncertainty and price level uncertainty on contracting costs. The paper shows that, as relative price uncertainty or price level uncertainty increase, contracts where performance is assured through the posting of a bond become more advantageous than contracts that rely on reputation. Increases in relative price and price level uncertainty make contracting more expensive by increasing the payoff from defaulting on long-term contracts when unfavorable realizations occur. As uncertainty increases, long-term contracting becomes less frequent and reputation plays a smaller role in contracting. Copyright 1993 by Ohio State University Press.
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  • Patricia Reagan & Rene M. Stulz, 1993. "Contracting costs, inflation, and relative price variability," Proceedings, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, pages 585-611.
    • Handle: RePEc:fip:fedcpr:y:1993:p:585-611
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    1. Ciżkowicz, Piotr & Rzońca, Andrzej, 2010. "Inflation and corporate investment in selected OECD countries in the years 1960-2005 – an empirical analysis," MPRA Paper 29846, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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    9. Stanley Fischer, 1995. "Modern Approaches to Central Banking," NBER Working Papers 5064, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

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