In this study, we analyze the relationship between inflation and economic growth. To this end, we construct a model of … endogenous growth with creative destruction, incorporating sticky prices due to menu costs. Inflation and deflation reduce the … maximize the rate of economic growth by setting their target inflation rate at the negative of a fundamental growth rate that …

Output growth, investment and the real interest rate are all found empirically to be negatively affected by inflation …. But a seeming puzzle arises of opposite Tobin-like inflation effects because theory indicates a negative Tobin effect when … investment falls and a positive Tobin effect when the real interest rate rises. We define inflation's Tobin effect more …