The contrast between the early nineteenth century Argentinean experience of high inflation and the American experience … of low inflation is interpreted in terms of a dynamic monetary model of optimal taxation. It is argued that the two … the inflation tax may be viewed as an optimal solution to its wartime problems. By contrast, with the exception of the …

The contrast between the early nineteenth century Argentinean experience of high inflation and the American experience … of low inflation is interpreted in terms of a dynamic monetary model of optimal taxation. It is argued that the two … the inflation tax may be viewed as an optimal solution to its wartime problems. By contrast, with the exception of the …

The contrast between the early nineteenth century Argentinean experience of high inflation and the American experience … of low inflation is interpreted in terms of a dynamic monetary model of optimal taxation. It is argued that the two … the inflation tax may be viewed as an optimal solution to its wartime problems. By contrast, with the exception of the …

inadequate policy tools and theory from the interwar period, set the stage for the Great Inflation of the 1970s. The lessons from … that experience have convinced monetary authorities to reemphasize the goal of low inflation, as it were, committing …

of the type considered in the inflation-targeting literature. …