Published in:Harvard Business School BGIE Unit Working Paper ; No. 20-025
Extent:
1 Online-Ressource (14 p)
Language:
English
DOI:
10.2139/ssrn.3474368
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Footnote:
Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments October 10, 2019 erstellt
Description:
Sturzenegger's paper details Argentina's transition to an orthodox, center-right government that employed experts like himself to stabilize the economy following 12 years of populist administrations. Four years later, and with inflation twice the level inherited from the populists, there is widespread disappointment with Macri's handling of the economy. What went wrong? According to Sturzenegger, the key mistake was the change in the inflation target in the middle of a “successful disinflation program.” While this is an intriguing claim, the paper does not explain why Macri and other members of the government failed to appreciate his progress and fired him. It would be ironic if all we could conclude from this episode is that Macri's Achilles heel was, in the end, just old-style populist short-sightedness