Authors:

  • Gita Gopinath

Excerpt

Crisis and Commitment: Inflation Credibility and the Vulnerability to Sovereign Debt Crises. Gita Gopinath, June 21, 2013, Paper. "We propose a continuous time model of nominal debt and investigate the role of inflation credibility in the potential for self-fulfilling debt crises. Inflation is costly, but reduces the real value of outstanding debt without the full punishment of default. With high inflation credibility, which can be interpreted as joining a monetary union or issuing foreign currency debt, debt is effectively real. By contrast, with low inflation credibility, sovereign debt is nominal and in a debt crisis a government may opt to inflate away a fraction of the debt burden rather than explicitly default..." Link