Optimal Price Level Under Slowing Economic Performance Using Simple Growth-Inflation Threshold Models

Optimal Price Indices for Targeting Inflation under Incomplete Markets

Optimal Price Indices for Targeting Inflation under Incomplete Markets In models with complete markets, targeting core inflation enables monetary policy to maximize welfare by replicating the flexible price equilibrium. In this paper, we develop a twosector two-good closed economy new Keynesian model to study the optimal choice of price index in markets with financial frictions. Financial frict...

Inflation and Economic Growth: Threshold Effects and Transmission Mechanisms

optimal economic ordering policy for deteriorating items under two-level trade credit and inflation

in this paper, we develop an inventory model with delay in payments for deteriorating items. in our model, retailer who purchases the items enjoys a fixed credit period offered by his/her supplier and, in turn, also offers a credit period to his/her customers in order to promote the market competition. the demand is assumed to be linear function of the retailer's current-stock level. the effect...

Inflation and Economic Growth

Data for around 100 countries from 1960 to 1990 are used to assess the effects of inflation on economic performance. If a number of country characteristics are held constant, then regression results indicate that the impact effects from an increase in average inflation by 10 percentage points per year are a reduction of the growth rate of real per capita GDP by 0.2-0.3 percentage points per yea...

Does Inflation Harm Economic Growth In Iran?