01669cas a2200241 a 4500 AALejournalIMF007042 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781451846690 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Jadresic, Esteban. Wage Indexation and the Cost of Disinflation / Esteban Jadresic. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1996. 1 online resource (38 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students While a standard academic presumption has been that wage indexation reduces the cost of disinflation, policymakers generally contend that wage indexing makes disinflation more difficult. To shed light on these views, this paper reexamines the effects of wage indexing on the output loss caused by money-based stabilization. It finds that the cost of disinflation with indexed wage contracts tends to be smaller than that with contracts that specify preset time-varying wages, but larger than that with contracts that specify fixed wages. Thus the academic and policymakers views can be both appropriate depending on the standard of reference. Mode of access: Internet IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1996/048 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/1996/048/001.1996.issue-048-en.xml IMF e-Library