"This paper describes the continuous time stochastic process for money and inflation under which Cagan's adaptive expectations model is optimal. It then analyzes how data formed by sampling money and prices at discrete points in time would behave"--Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis web site

In the past fifteen years, inflation has been conquered by many advanced countries. History reveals, however, that it has been conquered before and returned. In The Conquest of American Inflation, Thomas J. Sargent presents a groundbreaking analysis of the rise and fall of U.S. inflation after...

This collection of essays uses the lens of rational expectations theory to examine how governments anticipate and plan for inflation, and provides insight into the pioneering research for which Thomas Sargent was awarded the 2011 Nobel Prize in economics. Rational expectations theory is based on...