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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.
A nice companion piece to this Charles Goodhart's and Boris Hofmann's (co-author of the article you link) entitled "Deflation"
ReplyDeletehttps://www.ecb.europa.eu/events/pdf/conferences/goodhart-hofmann.pdf
They find that deflation gets ugly went it hits property prices.