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A note on the integrability of partial-equilibrium measures of the welfare costs of inflation

Journal of Banking & Finance 2002 26(12), 2357-2363
Multidimensional measures of the welfare costs of inflation have been employed in the literature without an explicit concern of how the demand for the respective monetary assets are generated and without an investigation of the respective integrability conditions. This note establishes conditions under which such welfare measures are well defined.