In a previous attempt to articulate the costs of inflation (Leigh-Pemberton (1992)), the Bank of England outlined the … following costs of a fully-anticipated inflation: - the cost of economising on real money balances -- so-called shoe … these costs when moving from 2% inflation to price stability in the U.S. Feldstein concluded that the permanent welfare …

calculating the gain from price stability, the paper emphasizes the distortions caused by the interaction of inflation and capital … income taxes. Because inflation exacerbates the tax distortions that would exist even with price stability, the annual … deadweight loss of a two percent inflation rate is a surprisingly large one percent of GDP. Since the real gain from shifting to …

We empirically investigate the costs and benefits of going from low inflation to price stability in the case of Germany … reducing the trend rate of inflation by 2 percentage points exceeds the temporary costs in terms of output losses is below 0 ….3% of GDP. We analyze the welfare implications of the interactions even of moderate rates of inflation with the distorting …

of a weaker economy with higher unemployment and lower inflation and possible benefits from a lower probability or …

A parsimonious model of shifting policy regimes can simultaneously capture expected and actual US inflation during 1969 …. Private sector learning about policymaker type leads to a reputation state variable. We use model inflation forecasting rules … to extract state variables from SPF inflation forecasts. US inflation is tracked by optimal policy without commitment …

This paper assesses the proximate causes of the post pandemic surge in US inflation, the Federal Reserve's real time …

This paper examines what strategies policymakers have used to both reduce and control inflation. It first outlines why … a consensus has emerged that inflation needs to be controlled. Then it examines four basic strategies: exchange rate … pegging, monetary targeting, inflation targeting, and the just do it' strategy of preemptive monetary policy with no explicit …

This paper shows that it is possible to analyze equilibrium inflation determination without any reference to either … become negligible. Inflation in the cashless limit is shown to be a function of the gap between the natural rate' of interest …-rate rule indicating the tightness of monetary policy. Inflation can be completely stabilized, in principle, by adjusting the …

Previous analysis of the implementation of inflation targeting is extended to monetary policy responses to different … stabilization or smoothing all call for a more gradual adjustment of the conditional inflation forecast toward the inflation target …. The conditional inflation forecast is the natural intermediate target during inflation targeting …