This paper studies the welfare effects of the relative price variability arising from inflation. When agents interact … informational role: a potential customer uses current prices as signals of future prices. Inflation reduces the informativeness of … at moderate inflation rates …

This paper studies the welfare effects of the relative price variability arising from inflation. When agents interact … informational role: a potential customer uses current prices as signals of future prices. Inflation reduces the informativeness of … at moderate inflation rates …

In this paper three possible reasons are examined for a sluggish inflation response to a hard currency peg. Models of … credibility and the speed of private sector learning, which are shown to have a major impact on the speed of inflation adjustment …. But even if individual agents believe the government will not devalue, it is shown that inflation inertia can still arise …

This paper explains why sovereign issuers of reserve currencies do not use unexpected inflation to repudiate their … excessive money creation. It is shown that even without policy precommitment or aversion to inflation, the availability of … alternative currencies can support an equilibrium with a finite, time consistent inflation rate …