This paper examines the relative importance of monetary growth and exchange rate depreciation as causes of inflation in … autoregression (VAR) analysis suggest that both monetary expansion and exchange rate adjustments cause inflation in a number of these … countries. However, the failure of the tests to attribute the bulk of the variance in inflation in most of the countries to …

Although accommodative policies and widespread indexation may account for the persistence of high inflation, they … cannot explain changes in the inflation rate. This paper examines the causes of such changes for the high-inflation episodes … distinguish between the “fiscal” and “balance of payments” views of the causes of high inflation by computing historical …

additional investment for enhancing growth. If there are lags in tax collection, an increase in inflation erodes real fiscal … as increases the welfare cost of inflation. As such, the optimal rate of monetary expansion, equilibrium capital …

In this paper three possible reasons are examined for a sluggish inflation response to a hard currency peg. Models of … credibility and the speed of private sector learning, which are shown to have a major impact on the speed of inflation adjustment …. But even if individual agents believe the government will not devalue, it is shown that inflation inertia can still arise …

This paper explains why sovereign issuers of reserve currencies do not use unexpected inflation to repudiate their … excessive money creation. It is shown that even without policy precommitment or aversion to inflation, the availability of … alternative currencies can support an equilibrium with a finite, time consistent inflation rate …

We show that the presence of nominal non-indexed government debt could give rise to more than one equilibrium inflation …

combining the public finance view of inflation with multiple exchange markets. To account for the experience of many developing … rates were often announced as temporary. The paper shows that the dynamic response of inflation to the reform markedly … differ whether the announcement is credible or not. The paper also compares the response of inflation under a fixed crawl of …

Why is moving from moderate to low inflation almost always slow or costly? This paper answers this question, based on … the Polish experience. First, reflecting the transition to a market economy, Polish inflation has been marked by … best prospect for moving to low inflation …

forces that generate inflation in the uncontrolled market, and that cause shrinkage of the controlled economy as resources …