interest rates by critically surveying theories about (a) optimal anticipated inflation, (b) optimal unanticipated inflation …

We study how changes in the value of the steady-state real interest rate affect the optimal inflation target, both in …-for-one: increases in the optimal inflation rate are generally lower than declines in the steady-state real interest rate. Our approach … allows us not only to assess the uncertainty surrounding the optimal inflation target, but also to determine the latter while …

This paper considers whether 'liquidity trap' issues have important bearing on the desirability of inflation targeting … 'indeterminacy' dangers are created by variants of inflation targeting, the latter when forecasts of future inflation enter the … variable can still be the inflation rate …

Standard discussions of flexible inflation targeting as an optimal monetary policy abstract completely from the … consequences of monetary policy for the government budget. But at least some of the countries now adopting inflation targeting have … substantial difficulty in controlling fiscal imbalances, so that the additional strains resulting from strict control of inflation …

determine inflation in this regime, so I base the analysis on the fiscal theory of the price level. I find that monetary policy … can peg the nominal rate, and determine expected inflation. With sticky prices, monetary policy can also affect real … interest rates and output, though higher interest rates raise output and then inflation. The conventional sign requires a …

. Inflation may be positive throughout, so the absence of deflation is not evidence against a liquidity trap. Output, on the other …

current and future inflation innovations to revalue government debt, reducing reliance on distorting taxes; (2) the role of … inflation in optimal fiscal financing increases with the average maturity of government debt; (3) as average maturity rises, it … is optimal to tradeoff inflation for output stabilization; (4) inflation is relatively more important as a fiscal shock …

We develop the theory of price-level determination in a range of models using both ad hoc policy rules and jointly …

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 …