NBER Books



The Costs and Benefits of Price Stability
Martin Feldstein, editor

The University of Chicago Press, 1999
Cloth: $52.00
360 pages
ISBN: 0-226-24099-1

Table of Contents:

    Introduction
    Martin Feldstein

    1. Capital Income Taxes and the Benefit of Price Stability
    Martin Feldstein

    2. Price Stability versus Low Inflation in Germany: An Analysis of Costs and Benefits
    Karl-Heinz Todter and Gerhard Ziebarth

    3. A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Going from Low Inflation to Price Stability in Spain
    Juan J. Dolado, Jose M. Gonzalez-Paramo, and Jose Vinals

    4. Some Costs and Benefits of Price Stability in the United Kingdom
    Hasan Bakhshi, Andrew G. Haldane, and Neal Hatch

      Comment on Chapters 2, 3, and 4: Andrew B. Abel
      Comment on Chapters 2, 3, and 4: Rudiger Dornbusch

    5. Inflation and the User Cost of Capital: Does Inflation Still Matter?
    Darrel Cohen, Kevin A. Hassett, and R. Glenn Hubbard

      Comment: Alan J. Auerbach

    Discussion Summary

    6. Excess Capital Flows and the Burden of Inflation in Open Economies
    Mihir A. Desai and James R. Hines, Jr.

      Comment: Jeffrey A. Frankel

    Discussion Summary

    7. Identifying Inflation's Grease and Sand Effects in the Labor Market
    Erica L. Groshen and Mark E. Schweitzer

      Comment: Laurence Ball

    Discussion Summary

    8. Does Inflation Harm Economic Growth? Evidence from the OECD
    Javier Andres and Ignacio Hernando

      Comment: Frederic S. Mishkin<

    Discussion Summary