Benati, Luca; Nicolini, Juan Pablo - 2024
We explore the welfare costs of inflation originating from lack of liquidity satiation for Weimar Republic …'s hyperinflation and three high-inflation countries. Towards the peak of Weimar's hyperinflation the costs are estimated to have been … equal to nearly 20 per cent of income. For Israel, Mexico, and Argentina the costs had been materially lower, but still in …