A small analytic framework is build to analyse the relation between reserve requirements, inflation, and seigniorage revenues. From the analysis we can derive steady-state seigniorage revenues as a function of the rate of inflation and the intensity of financial repression. The framework is...

This paper analyzes the existence of an inflation-tax Laffer curve (ITLC) in the context of two optimizing monetary models. Explosive hyperinflation rules out the presence of an ITLC. In a cash-in-advance economy, this paper shows that explosive hyperinflation is possible and thus an ITLC is...

We investigate the optimal nonlinear wage and interest-income taxes with money as an asset, assuming that there are two types of labor, which are not perfect substitutes in production, and that each type is difficult for the policymaker to observe. It is shown that the optimal interest-income...

Convergence in inflation rates may not imply a process of convergence in price levels. If this were the case in the European Union, small but consistent differences in inflation would lead to inevitable realignments and would end up in a set back of the inflation convergence process. For some...

This note, employing a GARCH model, finds a positive and significant relationship between the level and variability of monthly inflation in India in the period 1957-2005, with causation running from inflation to uncertainty about future inflation, as hypothesized by Friedman. To the extent that...