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 …

Output growth, investment and the real interest rate in long run evidence tend to be negatively affected by inflation …. Theoretically, inflation acts as a human capital tax that decreases output growth and the real interest rate, but increases the …. Inflation then decreases the investment rate, and still decreases both output growth and real interest up to some moderately …

Output growth, investment and the real interest rate are all found empirically to be negatively affected by inflation …. But a seeming puzzle arises of opposite Tobin-like inflation effects because theory indicates a negative Tobin effect when … investment falls and a positive Tobin effect when the real interest rate rises. We define inflation's Tobin effect more …

The empirical evidence suggests that there is a significant, negative relationship between inflation and economic …. Therefore the technology of the financial sector influences the velocity of money, and consequently, how inflation affects … generates an inflation-growth effect whose magnitude falls in the range found by the empirical studies. Moreover, in contrast to …

The empirical evidence suggests that there is a significant, negative relationship between inflation and economic …. Therefore the technology of the financial sector influences the velocity of money, and consequently, how inflation affects … generates an inflation-growth effect whose magnitude falls in the range found by the empirical studies. Moreover, in contrast to …