. Uncertainty on central bank's preferences induces unions to reduce wages but also produces a fully-anticipated expansionary fiscal …, transparency reduces inflation and the output gap, but at the cost of higher macroeconomic volatility. …

Our aim in this paper is to test the robustness of the relation between total factor productivity growth and inflation … period 1964-1980. The results confirm that the acceleration of inflation from 1964-1972 to 1973-1980 reduced total factor … effect of inflation is separated from the effects of technical change and economies of scale, the choice of functional form …

The empirical evidence suggests that there is a significant, negative relationship between inflation and economic …. Therefore the technology of the financial sector influences the velocity of money, and consequently, how inflation affects … generates an inflation-growth effect whose magnitude falls in the range found by the empirical studies. Moreover, in contrast to …

equities fail the test as inflation hedges, as had been quite widely believed, but that they take so long to pass. …

An empirical link between inflation and price dispersion has been well established in goods and services markets – both …. Specifically, we examine the link between inflation and price dispersion in an empirical setting patently lacking the market … inflation-dispersion link in goods and services markets with a matched panel of equity market prices. Surprisingly, we find that …