explosion of inflation during his administration (above 1,500% on a six-month annualized measure) was predictable, and that the … that the combination of runaway inflation, shortages, and black markets generated major disaffection among the middle class …

inflation: the "myopic? government approach and the "weak" government approach. In myopic government models inflation is the … deliberate outcome of politicians strategic behavior, while in weak government models inflation is the unavoidable result of a … political developments in 76 countries for the period 1971-1982. Using a number of alternative definitions of the inflation tax …

countries. We first test the optimal taxation theory of inflation for a grip of 21 LDCs. We find that the implications of this …In this paper we investigate erririca1ly the determinants of inflation, seigniorage an fiscal deficits in developing … theory is rejected for all the countries. We then proceed to implement a number of tests based on the new political economy …