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Inflation and the Informativeness of Prices Microeconomic Evidence from High Inflation

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  • Mariano Tommasi

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I study the effect of inflation on the ability of economic agents to forecast real prices, using microeconomic data from Argentina 1990-1992. The evidence favors the view that inflation degrades the informational content of real prices. Several rules for forecasting real prices are shown to perform worst at higher iuflation. Also, at high inflation, real prices have shorter durations, and mark-down sales disappear. This snggests that inflation (at least high inflation) has "Industrial Organization" effects usually ignored in macroeconomic assessments of the effects of inflation.
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  • Mariano Tommasi, 1994. "Inflation and the Informativeness of Prices Microeconomic Evidence from High Inflation," UCLA Economics Working Papers 718, UCLA Department of Economics.
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