This paper provides general equilibrium estimates of the steady-state welfare gains of lowering inflation from a low … tax, it is found that inflation unambiguously reduces capital intensity, drives up the before-tax real rate of return to …

based on static expectations, such contracts will result in a greater reduction in inflation with lower output costs …

inflation, the usual type of wage indexation observed in practice. Drawing mainly on recent research by the author, this paper … examines the consequences of wage indexation to lagged inflation on aggregate wage formation, the cost of disinflation under … choice of exchange rate regime, and the level and variability of inflation …

been to raise inflation targets to provide more room for policy rate easing during crises. This paper addresses a different … issue: the relationship between inflation and welfare. The literature is surveyed and a model is developed. A key conclusion … is that an increase in inflation targets gives rise to additional welfare costs, even after the extra room to maneuver …

This paper focuses on the role of debt maturity in managing the government’s incentives to use opportunistic inflation … powerful instrument to affect the time profile of the inflation tax base and, hence, to mitigate the distortions introduced by …

This paper examines two important issues for a small high-inflation open economy with trade controls where the …

This paper examines the welfare effects of mitigating the costs of inflation. In a simple model where money reduces … transaction costs, a fall in the costs of inflation is equivalent to financial innovation. This can be caused by paying interest … on deposits, indexing money, or “dollarizing.” Results indicate that financial innovation raises welfare in low inflation …

We show that the presence of nominal non-indexed government debt could give rise to more than one equilibrium inflation …