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The Brazilian economic theorist and policymaker Mario Henrique Simonsen elaborated in the early 1970s a theory of inertial inflation based on the indexation of economic contracts. He later established that lagged indexation under rational expectations brings about a trade-off between inflation and unemployment. Simonsen further argued that incomes policy may be deployed to speed up the convergence to Nash equilibria. Simonsen also showed that the condition for a country’s solvency is that the rate of growth of its exports exceeds the rate of interest, advanced a model of bargaining between banks and indebted developing countries, and formulated a cash-in-advance model.
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Boianovsky, M. (2018). Simonsen, Mario Henrique (1935–1997). In: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95189-5_2173
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