The paper offers a new explanation for the cause of the Great Inflation by constructing a model that explicitly … separates the roles of government and monetary policymakers. A mechanism that inflation can accelerate even if an inflation … target is low is uncovered. The model solves the puzzle of the observed high inflation target during the Great Inflation and …

We analyse welfare effects of the interactions between the tax system and inflation in Poland and in Ukraine, using the … framework developed by Feldstein (1997, 1999). This approach stresses the fact that inflation increases distortions created by …

A standard monetary model of inflation is augmented to include import, labor, energy, and intermediate good cost …

This paper examines the determinants of Uganda’s inflation rate during 1994M7-2005M6. We test the central hypothesis … that Uganda’s inflation rate is always and everywhere a non-monetary phenomenon. A theoretical background relating … inflation to monetary and other non-monetary factors is first analyzed before a detailed empirical analysis is done. We apply …

large current account deficit or rise in inflation or interest rates, a rising inflow of external capital, accompanied by … the RBI’s sterilizing these inflows and accumulating large reserves, even in the face of low inflation. We offer a …

Mismeasurement of inflation is likely to be more severe in a transition economy than in a more stable environment …