Virtually all references to the Fisher Effect assume that its appearance in nominal interest rates is a simultaneous result of borrower and lender effects. However, Irving Fisher, and Henry Thornton before him emphasized the activist role on the borrower (demand) side of the loan market. Their...

Prominent among older theories of inflation is the view that a rising price level stems from a divergence between two rates of interest.

The Federal Reserve Board’s P-Star inflation forecasting model predicts changes in inflation from the gap between actual and equilibrium prices. The model has a distinguished history. Quantity theorists from David Hume to Milton Friedman have long used versions of it to explain how money stock...

The policy models of Irving Fisher and Knut Wicksell posit rules by which central banks can stabilize general prices at a fixed target level over time. Wicksell’s model, however, requires some adjustment before it can deliver price stability.

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Originally appeared in the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, Economic Review, July/August 1976