The Welfare cost of inflation is revisited with a search-theoretic model wherein distinct features of cash and checkable deposits as means of payment are incorporated. Our result implies that the presence of an interest-bearing checkable deposit amplifies the cost of inflation significantly via...

The Welfare cost of inflation is revisited with a search-theoretic model wherein distinct features of cash and checkable deposits as means of payment are incorporated. Our result implies that the presence of an interest-bearing checkable deposit amplifies the cost of inflation significantly via...

This paper aims to examine the effect of conventional bank interest rates (CBIR), profit-sharing rates (PS), the level of liquidity proxied in the finance-to-deposit ratio (FDR) and the inflation rate (IR) against mudharabah deposits (MDs). The sample comes from eight Islamic public banks...