This paper studies the relation between seigniorage and inflation in Argentina for the period 1979-1989. We estimate a money demand function and derive the Laffer curve for several sub-periods with different monetary/exchange rate regimes. We find that for most of the period the Argentine...

Hyperinflationary processes usually occur in countries with extremely large budget deficits. In models of inflationary finance with rational expectations (e.g., Buiter [1987]), large budget deficits cannot lead to hyperinflation. The purpose of this paper is to reconcile the standard theoretical...

This paper incorporates sluggish output adjustment in a model simil ar to R. Dornbusch (1976) and explicitly considers the cases in which a real depreciation of the exchange rate is expansionary and contractionary. It is shown that the exchange rate is likely to portray overshooting g in both...

This article examines the effects of disinflation on economic activity in countries characterized by chronic inflation. Such countries have a long history of inflation at rates exceeding those in industrial countries as well as labor and capital markets that have adjusted to function in an...