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Monetarism is that solid microfoundations are critical for understanding monetary issues. We survey recent papers on monetary … theory, showing how they build on common foundations. We then lay out a tractable benchmark version of the model that allows … inflation, the relationship between money and capital accumulation, and the Phillips curve. We also extend the benchmark model …
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This paper studies the welfare costs and the redistributive effects of inflation in the presence of idiosyncratic … money demand and the distribution of money holdings across households, and study the effects of inflation under the implied … inflation are on average 40% smaller compared to a complete markets, representative agent economy, and that inflation induces …
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The present paper explores the connection between inflation and unemployment in different models with fair wages both … function, more inflation lowers the unemployment rate, though to a declining extent. This is because firms respond to inflation … inflation on effort. A stronger effect of nflation on unemployment is also produced under varying as opposed to fixed capital …
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of money, it causes inflation, in the absence of monetary intervention. If the monetary authority attempts to restore pre … credit cards, there is even more inflation, and less efficiency gains. The monetary authority might then have to accept less … than pre-credit card efficiency in order to restore pre-credit card price levels, or else it will have to accept inflation …
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We argue that long-run inflation has nonlinear and state-dependent effects on unemployment, output, and welfare. Using … anticipated inflation and unemployment. Second, there is also a positive correlation between anticipated inflation and … unemployment volatility. Third, the long-run inflation-unemployment relationship is not only positive, but also stronger when …
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We argue that long-run inflation has nonlinear and state-dependent effects on unemployment, output, and welfare. Using … anticipated inflation and unemployment. Second, there is also a positive correlation between anticipated inflation and … unemployment volatility. Third, the long-run inflation-unemployment relationship is not only positive, but also stronger when …
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emerging markets such as India and Brazil, and crave for the local currency and its use drives asset bubbles and inflation … into an economy, with potential to create asset bubbles and inflation, or poor economy growth and deflation. Specifically …
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We study the redistributive effects of expected inflation in a microfounded monetary model with heterogeneous discount … framework expected inflation is detrimental to capital accumulation. Second, expected inflation affects borrowing and lending … inflation is larger when capital is used as collateral …
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selection approach, the study interacts money supply, interest rate, economic growth, and inflation rate, among themselves and … their lagged values using the Vector Auto-regressive (VAR) analytical technique. The Classical quantity theory of money, the … Cambridge Cash Balanced, the liquidity preference theory and the Monetarists as theoretical frameworks were explored to …
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This paper investigates the welfare effects of inflation in economies with search frictions and menu costs. We first … condition under which price stability is optimal and a condition under which positive inflation is desirable. We relate these … inflation rate is negative for all our numerical examples. A deviation from the Friedman rule can be optimal depending on the …
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