Recent empirical studies on the inflation-growth-relationship underline that inflation has negative growth effects … already under relatively modest rates. Most contributions to monetary growth theory, however, have difficulties in explaining … influence of inflation on factor substitution. It turns out that already in a simple neoclassical monetary growth model this …

Recent work on money and endogenous growth finds modest welfare costs of inflation. Furthermore, high inflation reduces … rate of inflation depending on the elasticity of labor supply. Considering the transition dynamics following a change in … the monetary policy, the optimal quarterly inflation rate is found to amount to approximately 3.5% in the benchmark case …

All else equal, higher wages translate into higher inflation. More rigid wages imply a weaker response of inflation to …

concludes with an empirical application to consumer price inflation in Germany, France and Italy, and re-examines the extent to … which "observed" inflation persistence at the aggregate level is due to aggregation and/or common unobserved factors. Our … persistence of the aggregate inflation. -- aggregation ; large dynamic panels ; long memory ; weak and strong cross section …