The paper argues that Lucas overestimates the Friedman-Bailey type of welfare cost of inflation and neglects other … of Lucas' estimate. The neglected welfare effects of inflation include an adverse Baumol-Tobin effect on growth and … between inflation, relative prices and structural change …

sustained inflation are small relative to the costs of unemployment. If a temporary reduction in unemployment causes a permanent … increase in inflation, the present value of the resulting future welfare costs may well exceed the temporary short-run gain …. Previous analyses have underestimated the cost of a permanent increase in the inflation rate because they have ignored the …

How far can shoe-leather go in explaining the welfare cost of inflation? Using a unique set of microeconomic data on … welfare cost of inflation analogous to Bailey's triangle, but based on a rigorous microeconomic framework. The welfare cost of … inflation varies considerably within the population, but never turns out to be very large (about 0.1 percent of consumption or …

Empirical studies of the shoe-leather costs of inflation are typically computed using M1 as a measure of money. Yet … moderate value of the inflation rate, thereby justifying a deviation from the Friedman rule in favor of the Fed's current …

to money markets decrease the welfare cost of inflation substantially …

(2003), 221–238] to derive and order six alternative measures of the welfare costs of inflation (five of them already …