This paper provides a single welfare measure to show the effects of consumer price changes upon households in Ireland … component using the Atkinson Social Welfare Function. The efficiency component includes the behavioural response to price … of households in response to price changes in most years. …

contracts and positive inflation. Workers with relatively low incomes experience envy, whereas those with relatively high … incomes experience guilt. The former seek to raise their income, and latter seek to reduce it. The greater the inflation rate …, a rise in the inflation rate leads workers to supply more labor over the contract period, generating a significant …

This paper offers a reappraisal of the inflation-unemployment tradeoff, based on "frictional growth" describing the … interplay between nominal frictions and money growth. When the money supply grows in the presence of price inertia (due to … staggered wage contracts with time discounting), the price adjustments to each successive change in the money supply are never …

and inflation rates. Building on the lessons from recent advances in time-series econometrics, we suggest instead that one …

-run inflation-unemployment tradeoff. …

money growth leads to higher inflation and higher unemployment, so the long-run Phillips curve is not vertical. The optimal …