Sunday, March 22, 2015

Claudio Borio, Magdalena Erdem, Andrew Filardo and Boris Hofmann — The costs of deflations: a historical perspective


Asset value deflation rather than goods price deflation is the problem that leads to debt deflation.

The costs of deflations: a historical perspective 24 pages
by Claudio Borio, Magdalena Erdem, Andrew Filardo and Boris Hofmann


BIS Quarterly Review, March 2015

1 comment:

circuit said...

A nice companion piece to this Charles Goodhart's and Boris Hofmann's (co-author of the article you link) entitled "Deflation"

https://www.ecb.europa.eu/events/pdf/conferences/goodhart-hofmann.pdf

They find that deflation gets ugly went it hits property prices.