Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/153652 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
ECB Working Paper No. 1218
Publisher: 
European Central Bank (ECB), Frankfurt a. M.
Abstract: 
Estimates of the welfare costs of inflation based on Bailey (1956) are typically computed using aggregate money demand models. Yet, the behavior of money demand may vary across sectors. Thus, the impact on welfare of inflation regime shifts may differ between households and firms. We specifically investigate the sectoral welfare implications of the shift from the Great Inflation to the present regime of low and stable inflation. For this purpose, we estimate different functional specifications of money demand for US households and non-financial firms using flow-of-fund data covering four decades. We find that the benefits were significant for both sectors.
Subjects: 
‡ow of funds data
demand for money
welfare cost of in‡ation
JEL: 
E31
E41
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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