This paper investigates whether the quantity theory of money is still alive. We demonstrate three insights. First, for … countries with low inflation, the raw relationship between average inflation and the growth rate of money is tenuous at best … elasticities implied by theories of Baumol-Tobin and Miller-Orr. Finally, the sample after 1990 shows considerably less inflation …

consumption velocity very closely during the high-inflation years. …

the elasticity is very small for interest rates below 5% suggests that the welfare costs of inflation are small. We also …

inflation and the difficulties of East European central banks in pursuing non-inflationary policies. The main obstacles are the …

situation poses to price stability. We propose to regard the central banker as a risk manager who aims to contain inflation …

This paper estimates the NAIRU (standing for the Non-Accelerating Inflation Rate of Unemployment) as a parameter that … varies over time. The NAIRU is the unemployment rate that is consistent with a constant rate of inflation. Its value is … determined in an econometric model in which the inflation rate depends on its own past values (‘inertia’), demand shocks proxied …

, control of inflation and control over the growth of national wealth, and a third outcome of importance, a high level of …). The assignment problem considers whether fiscal policy should be used to control inflation, leaving monetary policy to …