Most estimates of the welfare costs of in ation are devised considering only noninterest- bearing assets, ignoring that since the 80 s technological innovations and new regu- lations have increased the liquidity of interest-bearing deposits. We investigate the resulting bias. Su¢ cient and...

Fischer (1979) and Asako (1983) analyze the sign of the correlation between the growth rate of money and the rate of capital accumulation on the transition path. Both plug a CRRA utility (based on a Cobb-Douglas and a Leontief function, respectively) into Sidrauski's model - yet return...

This paper builds on Lucas (2000) and on Cysne (2003) to derive and order six alternative measures of the welfare costs of inflation (five of which already existing in the literature) for any vector of opportunity costs. The ordering of the functions is carried out for economies with or without...

This paper investigates which properties money-demand functions have to satisfy to be consistent with multidimensional extensions of Lucas (2000) versions of the Sidrauski (1967) and the shopping-time models. We also investigate how such classes of models relate to each other regarding the...

This paper builds on Lucas [Econometrica 68 (2000), 247–274] and on Cysne [Journal of Money, Credit and Banking 35 (2003), 221–238] to derive and order six alternative measures of the welfare costs of inflation (five of them already existing in the literature) for any vector of opportunity...

Redistributive taxation policies have long been suggested as possible growth and welfare enhancers in economies with R&D-based growth. We propose an analysis of the prospects of simple redistributive schemes, both in generating more growth and in providing an escape route from the no-growth...