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 …

We identify and study analytically three key channels that shape how inflation affects wealth inequality: (i) the … traditional wealth (Fisher) channel through which inflation redistributes from lenders to borrowers; (ii) an income channel … through which inflation reduces the real value of sticky wages and benefits; and (iii) a relative consumption channel through …

is constructed for the German monetary sector based on M3, GNP, an inflation rate, a long-term interest rate and a short …-term rate which represents the policy variable of the DBB. Moreover, import price inflation is included as an exogenous variable …

inflation, a finding that is at odds with the assumption of constant indexation parameters in most New-Keynesian DSGE models. We … response to aggregate shocks and monetary policy. We show that workers index wages to past inflation when output fluctuations … are primarily explained by technology and permanent inflation-target shocks, whereas they index to trend inflation when …