The Friedman rule states that steady-state welfare is maximized when there is deflation at the real rate of interest …. Recent work by Khan et al (2003) uses a richer model but still finds deflation optimal. In an otherwise standard new … Keynesian model we show that, if households have hyperbolic discounting, small positive rates of inflation can be optimal. In …

-run inflation-unemployment tradeoff. …

hyperbolic discounting leads to inflation having significant long-run effects on real variables. …

model, covering a panel of EU countries, and derives the implied long-run inflation-unemployment tradeoff. Our results …

This paper offers a reappraisal of the inflation-unemployment tradeoff, based on "frictional growth" describing the … able to work themselves out fully. In this context, monetary shocks have a gradual and delayed effect on inflation, and …

variations in malaria exposure risk around birth that resulted from a universal malaria eradication campaign in colonial Taiwan …