The post-pandemic disinflation: Low sacrifice, high prices
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By some criteria, the post-pandemic disinflation was a triumph for central banks in advanced economies: inflation fell sharply from 40-year highs while unemployment rates remained low, the combination of which generated historically low sacrifice ratios (output losses per inflation reduction). These standard metrics for success, however, ignore adjustments in the price level, which rose by more after the pandemic than over the past four decades. This column discusses lessons learned from the ‘
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