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Liquidity Effects and Welfare Costs of Inflation in an EndogenousGrowth Model

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C.K. Folkertsma
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The paper has two subjects. The first subject is the development of a monetary general equilibrium model with en- dogenous growth. By combining the two-sector endogenous growth model and the limited participation approach, the model is able to explain the empirically observed liquidity effect of an expansionary monetary policy. The second subject is the effect of inflation on growth and economic welfare. It is shown that the traditional approach to measure the welfare costs of inflation may be misleading: It ignores the costs or benefits of the transition to the new steady state. This omission may bias estimates of the optimal degree and of the total benefits of disinflation. It is also argued that, once the transition is taken into account, the welfare gains of lowering inflation depend on the monetary policy rule and the fiscal response to disinflation. The two themes of the paper are related. Given that the welfare costs of inflation depend on the transitional dynamics, then simulating disinflation processes requires models with sensible short run properties.

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Paper provided by Netherlands Central Bank in its series DNB Staff Reports (discontinued) with number 54.

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Date of creation: 2000
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Keywords: Monetary general equilibrium model endogenous growth welfare costs of inflation monetary trans- mission liquidity effects

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D58 - Microeconomics - - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium - - - Computable and Other Applied General Equilibrium Models
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E52 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Monetary Policy
O41 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - One, Two, and Multisector Growth Models

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  1. C.K. Folkertsma & K. Hubrich, 2000. "Performance of core inflation measures," WO Research Memoranda (discontinued) 639, Netherlands Central Bank, Research Department. [Downloadable!]
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