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Title: The Great Inflation and Early Disinflation in Japan and Germany

Author(s): Edward Nelson

Publication Date: March 2007

Keyword(s): Germany, Great Inflation, incomes policy, Japan and monetary targeting

Programme Area(s): International Macroeconomics

Abstract: This paper considers the Great Inflation of the 1970s in Japan and Germany. From 1975 onward these countries had low inflation relative to other large economies. Traditionally, this success is attributed to stronger discipline on the part of Japan and Germany?s monetary authorities - for example, more willingness to accept temporary unemployment, or stronger determination not to monetize government deficits. I instead attribute the success of these countries from the mid-1970s to their governments? and monetary authorities? acceptance that inflation is a monetary phenomenon. Their higher inflation in the first half of the 1970s is attributable to the fact that their policymakers over this period embraced non-monetary theories of inflation.

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Nelson, E. 2007. 'The Great Inflation and Early Disinflation in Japan and Germany'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=6156