establishments' productivities. Inflation distorts aggregate productivity through firm entry dynamics. The model is calibrated to the … in productivity is not innocuous: it leads to a doubling of the welfare cost of inflation. …We analyze the welfare cost of inflation in a model with cash-in-advance constraints and an endogenous distribution of …

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 …

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 …

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

chain reactions, and provides new evidence on the long-run inflation-unemployment tradeoff in the US. It is argued that … inflation/unemployment responses to money growth shocks. SVAR (structural vector autoregression) and GMM (generalised method of … and real sides of the economy are symbiotic. In the light of the significant and robust long-run inflation …

not efficient. Inflation is detrimental to unemployment. …

An empirical analysis of the impact of labour market structures on the response of inflation to macroeconomic shocks is … presented. Results based on a 20 country panel show that if labour market coordination is high, the effect on inflation of … movements in unemployment, import prices, tax rates and productivity is dampened, both on impact and dynamically. In contrast …

changes for non-subsistence expenditures thereby producing a Cost of Living Index. The Atkinson Index of Inequality produces … an inequality measure and this is combined with the Cost of Living Index to produce an overall welfare measure. This …