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What has become of the \\"stability-through-inflation\\" argument?

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In this article, James B. Bullard and Alvin L. Marty begin by summarizing some popular arguments for positive steady-state rates of inflation based on the idea that a certain amount of inflation stabilizes economic performance. Then, synthesizing a number of disparate results in a single framework and using a general class of money-demand functions, they find that the stability-through-inflation arguments have either been completely replaced (by potent but unsettling results based on rational expectations) or called into question (by more sophisticated treatments of the adaptive expectations hypothesis).

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  • James B. Bullard & Alvin L. Marty, 1998. "What has become of the \\"stability-through-inflation\\" argument?," Review, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, issue Jan, pages 37-45.
    • Handle: RePEc:fip:fedlrv:y:1998:i:jan:p:37-45
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