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Original Articles

The welfare cost of inflation in Italy

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Pages 165-168 | Published online: 20 Aug 2006
 

Abstract

This paper follows Lucas (Citation2000), and Serletis and Yavari (Citation2004) and estimates the welfare cost of inflation in Italy. It uses recent advances in the field of applied econometrics to estimate the interest elasticity of money demand in Italy and reports welfare cost estimates close to those reported by Serletis and Yavari for Canada and the USA, but an order of magnitude smaller than those reported by Bullard and Russell (Citation2004) for the US economy.

Acknowledgements

Serletis acknowledges support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

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