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Credibility Effects of Price Controls in Disinflation Programs

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This paper examines whether price controls may enhance the credibility of a disinflation program, using a framework in which agents behave strategically. The analysis indicates that a partial price freeze is not fully credible, and may result in inflation inertia. The authorities may be able to determine optimally the intensity of price controls so as to minimize the policy loss associated with a discretionary monetary strategy. But the optimal intensity of controls is shown to be significantly different from zero only if the cost of enforcing price ceilings is not too high, or if the weight attached to price distortions in the policymaker’s loss function is small.

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  • Pierre-Richard Agénor, 1992. "Credibility Effects of Price Controls in Disinflation Programs," IMF Working Papers 1992/083, International Monetary Fund.
    • Handle: RePEc:imf:imfwpa:1992/083
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    2. Agenor, Pierre-Richard & Asilis, Carlos M., 1997. "Price controls and electoral cycles," European Journal of Political Economy, Elsevier, vol. 13(1), pages 131-142, February.
    3. Mario Reyna-Cerecero & George Mavrotas, 2003. "Inflation, Output and Perfectly Enforceable Price Controls in Orthodox and Heterodox Stabilization Programmes," WIDER Working Paper Series DP2003-44, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).

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