This paper develops two models, one involving risk neutrality and the other risk aversion, which suggest that inflation uncertainty affects interest rates. Both models give rise to essentially the same interest rate equation for estimation. Empirical evidence supports the hypothesis that...

Regression studies have established that there tend to be convex, nonsymmetric relationships between relative price variability and the inflation rate, unanticipated inflation, and the change in the inflation rate. This paper shows that such regression results follow as "definitional artifacts"...