-recession trend, suggesting hysteresis. Second, while inflation has decreased, it has decreased less than anticipated, suggesting a … breakdown of the relation between inflation and activity. To examine the first, we look at 122 recessions over the past 50 years … unemployment on inflation, for given expected inflation, decreased until the early 1990s, but has remained roughly stable since …

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 …

This paper discusses three policy tools to mitigate jobless recoveries during financial crises: inflation, real … of inflation is sizably lower real wages. Hence, inflation does not prevent wage earners as a whole from getting hit by …/nontradables), from output peak to recovery point, displays a statistically significant relationship with inflation or jobless recovery …