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The gold standard's deflation was associated with pretty good results:

https://www.nber.org/papers/w10329

In any case, in a multi-currency world with low-friction electronic exchanges available, it stands to reason that deflation is less likely to be damaging, since the switching costs to more inflationary currencies are low.



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