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Inflation without politics: how French prices outsmarted bullets, 1938-1949

Baubeau, Patrice and Teixeira, Mateo (2024): Inflation without politics: how French prices outsmarted bullets, 1938-1949.

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Abstract

This article addresses the growing gap in the literature between qualitative data on prices and money in France around World War II, and the available CPI. It gathers archival price data to calculate a new CPI for 1938-1949, incorporating both official and black-market prices. The study demonstrates the adequacy of available sources and the robustness of the new CPI, both in its construction and when compared to contemporary analyses. Three key findings are that France did not experience exponential price acceleration; that dictatorship (1940-1944) was no more effective at price control than democracy (1945-1949); and that the 1944-1945 wage increases had a minor impact on inflation, questioning the price-wage loop explanation of France’s post-war inflation.

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