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 …

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 …