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Deflation: The Dog That Didn’t Bark

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Having discussed the BOE’s monetary policy response during the opening years of the post-crisis period, we now turn to discuss some of the key puzzles which shaped the monetary policy debate during this period. We begin with the behaviour of inflation.

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Barwell, R. (2016). Deflation: The Dog That Didn’t Bark. In: Macroeconomic Policy after the Crash . Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-51592-6_4

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