Estimates of the welfare costs of inflation based on Bailey (1956) are typically computed using aggregate money demand … models. Yet, the behavior of money demand may vary across sectors. Thus, the impact on welfare of inflation regime shifts may … Great Inflation to the present regime of low and stable inflation. For this purpose, we estimate different functional …

interpreted, first and foremost, as a commitment device. In our setting, a monetary target helps anchoring inflation and inflation … well as a strong response to deviations of inflation from target and to the activity growth gap. In contrast, the response …

countries with low inflation, the raw relationship between average inflation and the growth rate of money is tenuous at best … elasticities implied by theories of Baumol-Tobin and Miller-Orr. Finally, the sample after 1990 shows considerably less inflation … variability, worsening the fit of a one-for-one relationship between money growth and inflation, and generates a fairly low …

Empirical studies of the "shoe-leather" costs of inflation are typically computed using M1 as a measure of money. Yet … minimized for a positive but moderate value of the inflation rate, thereby justifying a deviation from the Friedman rule in …

monetary targets, the SNB was able to reduce the inflation trend to low levels. However, it was less successful in preserving …-emptive policy stance. At the end of 1999, the SNB abandoned monetary targeting in favour of an approach based on inflation forecasts. …

We challenge the view that the relationship between money and prices is too loose in countries with low inflation rates … the long-run and find that the short-run correlation between annual inflation and model-based excess money growth is not …

countries with low inflation, the raw relationship between average inflation and the growth rate of money is tenuous at best … elasticities implied by theories of Baumol-Tobin and Miller-Orr. Finally, the sample after 1990 shows considerably less inflation … variability, worsening the fit of a one-for-one relationship between money growth and inflation, and generates a fairly low …

for inflation and for real economic development. …