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Record Nr.

UNINA9910788699803321

Autore

Bulir Ales

Titolo

The Maastricht Inflation Criterion : : How Unpleasant Is Purgatory? / / Ales Bulir, Jaromír Hurník

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2006

ISBN

1-4623-6695-3

1-4527-0877-0

1-283-51669-1

9786613829146

1-4519-0920-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (43 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

HurníkJaromír

Soggetti

Deflation (Finance) - European Union countries

Inflation (Finance) - European Union countries

Foreign Exchange

Inflation

Macroeconomics

Production and Operations Management

Price Level

Deflation

Macroeconomics: Production

Institutions and the Macroeconomy

Currency

Foreign exchange

Disinflation

Output gap

Exchange rates

Structural reforms

Prices

Production

Economic theory

European Union countries Economic conditions

European Union countries Economic policy

Hungary

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese



Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"June 2006."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""I. INTRODUCTION""; ""II. INFLATION IN THE EUROPEAN UNION""; ""III. HOW COSTLY CAN DISINFLATION BE AND WHY?""; ""IV. POLICY IMPLICATIONS""; ""V. CONCLUSIONS""; ""References""

Sommario/riassunto

The Maastricht inflation criterion, designed in the early 1990s to bring "high-inflation" EU countries in line with "low-inflation" countries prior to the introduction of the euro, poses challenges for both new EU member countries and the European Central Bank. While the criterion has positively influenced the public stance toward low inflation, it has biased the choice of the disinflation strategy toward short-run, fiat measures-rather than adopting structural reforms with longer-term benefits-with unpleasant consequences for the efficiency of the eurozone transmission mechanism. The criterion is also unnecessarily tight for new member countries as it mainly reflects cyclical developments.