Bartolomeo, Giovanni Di; Tirelli, Patrizio; Acocella, Nicola - Dipartimento di Economia, Metodi Quantitativi e … - 2013
We challenge the widely held belief that New-Keynesian models cannot predict optimal positive inflation rates. In fact these are justi
fied by the Phelps argument that monetary fi
nancing can alleviate the burden of distortionary taxation. We obtain this result because, in contrast with...