Our current inflation stemmed from a fiscal shock. The Fed is slow to react. Why? Will the Fed's slow reaction spur … more inflation? I write a simple model that encompasses the Fed's mild projections and its slow reaction, and traditional … views that inflation will surge without swift rate rises. The key question is whether expectations are forward looking or …

JamesTobin, relies on increasing the rate of inflation and making money less attractive relative to real capital. In Tobin …. This paper will examine ways of increasing capital intensity without raising the rate of inflation. The analysis will also … show why, contrary to Tobin's conclusion, a higher rate of inflation may not succeed in increasing investors' willingness …

Brazil has had a long period of high inflation. It peaked around 100 percent per year in 1964, decreased until the … crisis in the early 1980s. We show that the high-inflation period (1960-1994) was characterized by a combination of fiscal … deficits, passive monetary policy, and constraints on debt financing. The transition to the low-inflation period (1995 …

collapse of the Bretton Woods system between 1971 and 1973 was rising U.S. inflation since 1965. It was driven in turn by … imports and a ninety day wage price freeze--was that U.S. inflation, driven by macro policies, was the main problem facing the … Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur F. Burns, Nixon adopted wage and price controls to mask the inflation, hence punting the …

common monetary authority chooses inflation for the union, also without commitment. We first describe the existence of a … wisdom that all countries should prefer a union with low-debt members, as such a union can credibly deliver low inflation …