Inflation and growth: Explaining a negative effect

The paper presents a monetary model of endogenous growth and specifies an econometric model consistent with it. The economic model suggests a negative inflation-growth effect, and one that is stronger at lower levels of inflation. Empirical evaluation of the model is based on a large panel of OECD a...

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Main Authors: Gillman, M., Harris, Mark, Mátyás, L.
Format: Journal Article
Published: 2004
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/81810
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Mátyás, L.
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description The paper presents a monetary model of endogenous growth and specifies an econometric model consistent with it. The economic model suggests a negative inflation-growth effect, and one that is stronger at lower levels of inflation. Empirical evaluation of the model is based on a large panel of OECD and APEC member countries over the years 1961-1997. The hypothesized negative inflation effect is found comprehensively for the OECD countries to be significant and, as in the theory, to increase marginally as the inflation rate falls. For APEC countries, the results from using instrumental variables also show significant evidence of a similar behavior. The nature of the inflation-growth profile and differences in this between the regions are interpreted with the credit production technology of the model in a way not possible with a standard cash-only economy.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-818102021-03-25T02:31:11Z Inflation and growth: Explaining a negative effect Gillman, M. Harris, Mark Mátyás, L. The paper presents a monetary model of endogenous growth and specifies an econometric model consistent with it. The economic model suggests a negative inflation-growth effect, and one that is stronger at lower levels of inflation. Empirical evaluation of the model is based on a large panel of OECD and APEC member countries over the years 1961-1997. The hypothesized negative inflation effect is found comprehensively for the OECD countries to be significant and, as in the theory, to increase marginally as the inflation rate falls. For APEC countries, the results from using instrumental variables also show significant evidence of a similar behavior. The nature of the inflation-growth profile and differences in this between the regions are interpreted with the credit production technology of the model in a way not possible with a standard cash-only economy. 2004 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/81810 10.1007/s00181-003-0186-0 restricted
spellingShingle Gillman, M.
Harris, Mark
Mátyás, L.
Inflation and growth: Explaining a negative effect
title Inflation and growth: Explaining a negative effect
title_full Inflation and growth: Explaining a negative effect
title_fullStr Inflation and growth: Explaining a negative effect
title_full_unstemmed Inflation and growth: Explaining a negative effect
title_short Inflation and growth: Explaining a negative effect
title_sort inflation and growth: explaining a negative effect
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/81810