We construct a simple model in which high inflation imposes welfare costs because it affects the ability of the … financial sector to screen between high and low cost producers. Consumers search for a low price and inflation reduces the … inflation there is a switch from a separating equilibrium to a pooling equilibrium, where financial institutions become unable …

Information asymmetries are known in theory to lead to inefficiently low credit provision, yet empirical estimates of …

The paper presents the welfare cost of inflation in a banking time economy that models exchange credit through a bank … welfare cost of a 10% inflation rate instead of zero, for comparison to other estimates, as well as the cost of a 2% inflation … rate instead of a zero inflation rate. The zero rate is specified as the US inflation rate target in the 1978 Employment …