This paper studies the welfare costs and the redistributive effects of inflation in the presence of idiosyncratic … money demand and the distribution of money holdings across households, and study the effects of inflation under the implied … inflation are on average 40% smaller compared to a complete markets, representative agent economy, and that inflation induces …

selection approach, the study interacts money supply, interest rate, economic growth, and inflation rate, among themselves and … their lagged values using the Vector Auto-regressive (VAR) analytical technique. The Classical quantity theory of money, the … Cambridge Cash Balanced, the liquidity preference theory and the Monetarists as theoretical frameworks were explored to …

, for example. I show that fixed periods underestimate the welfare cost of inflation. I use a model in which agents choose … inflation increases from 0.1 percent of income with fixed periods to 1 percent with optimal periods. The results are robust to …

The present paper explores the connection between inflation and unemployment in different models with fair wages both … function, more inflation lowers the unemployment rate, though to a declining extent. This is because firms respond to inflation … inflation on effort. A stronger effect of nflation on unemployment is also produced under varying as opposed to fixed capital …

of money, it causes inflation, in the absence of monetary intervention. If the monetary authority attempts to restore pre … credit cards, there is even more inflation, and less efficiency gains. The monetary authority might then have to accept less … than pre-credit card efficiency in order to restore pre-credit card price levels, or else it will have to accept inflation …

This paper analyzes the relationship among inflation, dollarization, financial intermediation, and real activity …. Empirical evidence suggests non-linearity in the effects of inflation on financial intermediation and real activity, i.e., the … existence of an inflation threshold. Evidence also suggests that one way in which inflation affects financial intermediation in …

The authors apply a Hidden Markov Model to identify regimes of shifting inflation and then employ an attribution … technique based on the Mahalanobis distance to identify the economic variables that determine the trajectory of inflation. Their … analysis enables policymakers to focus on the most effective tools to manage inflation, and it offers guidance to investors …

We study the redistributive effects of expected inflation in a microfounded monetary model with heterogeneous discount … framework expected inflation is detrimental to capital accumulation. Second, expected inflation affects borrowing and lending … inflation is larger when capital is used as collateral …

emerging markets such as India and Brazil, and crave for the local currency and its use drives asset bubbles and inflation … into an economy, with potential to create asset bubbles and inflation, or poor economy growth and deflation. Specifically …

This paper investigates the welfare effects of inflation in economies with search frictions and menu costs. We first … condition under which price stability is optimal and a condition under which positive inflation is desirable. We relate these … inflation rate is negative for all our numerical examples. A deviation from the Friedman rule can be optimal depending on the …