sustained inflation are small relative to the costs of unemployment. If a temporary reduction in unemployment causes a permanent … increase in inflation, the present value of the resulting future welfare costs may well exceed the temporary short-run gain …. Previous analyses have underestimated the cost of a permanent increase in the inflation rate because they have ignored the …

The post-COVID price surge has reignited interest in inflation's impact on American households. Even if anticipated and … with full market adjustments, inflation affects households through its interaction with the fiscal system, which is the … focus of this paper. Inflation affects households through its interaction with the fiscal. We run the 2019 Survey of …