We present new empirical evidence for the US economy that inflation reduces the inequality of the earnings distribution … higher inflation on income distribution is shown to be rather small. However, we find that a longer duration between two …

The effect of a permanent change of inflation on the distribution of wealth is analyzed in a general equilibrium OLG … of inflation results in a lower stock market participation rate; in addition, the distribution of wealth becomes more … anticipated inflation are considerably lower than in Imrohoroglu (1992). …

We find that inflation did not unanimously decrease savings in the US during the postwar period. This result is …

In most monetary models of economic growth, higher long-run inflation is associated with a decline in the growth rate … inflation results in lower growth and employment in all three models, while, in the cash-credit good economy of Dotsey and … Ireland (1996), the effect is the exact opposite. -- inflation ; growth ; costly credit ; search unemployment …

With fixed costs of price and quantity adjustment, output effects of inflation depend on the elasticity of the firm …'s marginal real revenue. If the elasticity always exceeds minus unity, then output decreases with inflation, while if the … elasticity is always less than minus unity, then output increases with inflation. In the special case that the elasticity always …

the traditional results on the impact of inflation. In particular, recent findings suggest that quantity-adjustment costs … may remove the linkage between output and inflation. We show that this is not the case when inflation is anticipated. On …

Recent work on money and endogenous growth finds modest welfare costs of inflation. Furthermore, high inflation reduces … rate of inflation depending on the elasticity of labor supply. Considering the transition dynamics following a change in … the monetary policy, the optimal quarterly inflation rate is found to amount to approximately 3.5% in the benchmark case …