This paper reviews theory and evidence of the welfare effects of inflation from a costbenefit perspective. Basic models … and selected empirical results are discussed. Historically, in assessing the welfare effects of inflation, the distortion … of money demand played a prominent role. More recently, interactions of inflation and taxation came into focus. Growth …

The long-run relation between growth and inflation has not yet been studied in the context of nominal price and wage … integrate staggered price- and wage-setting into an endogenous growth framework. In this setting, growth and inflation are … linked via the incentive to innovate. For standard calibrations, the linkage is strong: as trend inflation shifts from -5 to …

calculating the gain from price stability, the paper emphasizes the distortions caused by the interaction of inflation and capital … income taxes. Because inflation exacerbates the tax distortions that would exist even with price stability, the annual … deadweight loss of a two percent inflation rate is a surprisingly large one percent of GDP. Since the real gain from shifting to …

In a previous attempt to articulate the costs of inflation (Leigh-Pemberton (1992)), the Bank of England outlined the … following costs of a fully-anticipated inflation: - the cost of economising on real money balances -- so-called shoe … these costs when moving from 2% inflation to price stability in the U.S. Feldstein concluded that the permanent welfare …

In a previous attempt to articulate the costs of inflation (Leigh-Pemberton (1992)), the Bank of England outlined the … following costs of a fully-anticipated inflation: - the cost of economising on real money balances -- so-called shoe … these costs when moving from 2% inflation to price stability in the U.S. Feldstein concluded that the permanent welfare …