Monetary Policy in Low-Inflation Economies (Hardcover)

Introduction; 1. The welfare cost of inflation in the presence of inside money Scott Freeman, Espen R. Henriksen and Finn E. Kydland, Commentary Wilbur John Coleman II and Tony Yates; 2. An open-economy model of endogenous price flexibility Michael B. Devereux, Commentary David K. Backus and Michael Dotsey; 3. Efficient inflation targets for distorted dynamic economies Costas Azariadis and Raphael W. K. Lam, Commentary Eric O'N. Fisher and Marvin Goodfriend; 4. Inflation and welfare in models with trading frictions Guillaume Rocheteau and Randall Wright, Commentary James Bullard and Shouyong Shi; 5. Good versus bad deflation: lessons from the gold standard era Michael D. Bordo, John Landon-Lane and Angela Redish, Commentary Francois R. Velde; 6. Monetary policy orientation in times of low inflation Jurgen von Hagen and Boris Hofmann, Commentary Jack Selody and Pierre L. Siklos; 7. Observations on disinflation in transition economies Paul Wachtel and Iikka Korhonen, Commentary Werner Hermann; 8. Inflation and financial market performance: what have we learned in the last ten years? John Boyd and Bruce Champ, Commentary Nicola Cetorelli and Peter L. Rousseau.