This paper focuses on the empirically observed relationship between demographic change and inflation and explores the … demographic change and inflation dynamics. We are the first to formally disentangle the two components of demographic change …: population size and structure, and determine how they separately affect inflation. We find that changes in population size are a …

representatives see themselves in his tradition. The historical debate on Knapp's "State Theory of Money," which divided opinion when … it was first published in 1905 as well as during the period of German inflation that peaked in 1923, is therefore of … particular interest. Knapp describes money largely from a legal perspective, labelling it a "creature of the legal order". The …

This paper presents a new mechanism through which monetary policy rules affect inflation persistence. When assuming … the traditional demand channel of monetary transmission have a long-lasting effect on inflation dynamics. The Calvo model … around positive trend inflation. With realistic calibration of trend inflation and the monetary policy rule, the model can …

We examine the impact of inflation on financial development in Brazil and the data available permit us to cover the … robust for different estimators and financial development measures?suggest that inflation presented deleterious effects on … Brazil by high rates of inflation, have detrimental effects to financial development, a variable that is important for …

This paper analyzes the link between inflation and democracy in developing countries. In order to address the … positive causal relationship between inflation and democracy. It appears that democracy increases inflation because democracy … stimulates money creation and compromises trade liberalization in my sample of developing countries. Case studies based on Chile …

We test the menu cost model of Ball and Mankiw (1994, 1995) on data from the inflation and deflation periods in Japan … during both inflation and deflation, is strongly supported. The data are less clear on, but does not reject, the hypothesis … that the parameter on the standard deviation changes sign between inflation and deflation periods. …

across the sample. Evidence in favour of a diminishing effect of oil price shocks on the output and inflation is found from … in the last part of the 1990s and, especially, for the CPI inflation in the 2000s. The most outstanding result is that … the oil price movements could explain at least some of the recent inflation, the main difference between these outcomes …

commiting to keep interest rates low at the exit of the liquidity trap, to stabilize inflation today. 2. From debt … consolidated budget) monetary policy becomes subservient to fiscal policy, giving rise to more volatile inflation, output and … interest rates. Liquidity trap (LT) episodes are longer, however, the impact of interest rate policy commitments on inflation …

Inflation and earnings growth can push some tax payers into higher brackets in the absence of inflation …-indexed schedules. Moreover, inflation may affect the composition of individuals' income sources. As a result, depending on the relative … tax burden of labor and capital, inflation may decrease or increase the difference between before and after-tax income …