01798cas a2200253 a 4500 AALejournalIMF000611 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781451961188 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL Ghosh, Atish. Inflation, Disinflation, and Growth / Atish Ghosh, Steven Phillips. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 1998. 1 online resource (44 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students Although few would doubt that very high inflation is bad for growth, there is much less agreement about moderate inflation's effects. Using panel regressions and a nonlinear specification, this paper finds a statistically and economically significant negative relationship between inflation and growth. This relationship holds at all but the lowest inflation rates and is robust across various samples and specifications. The method of binary recursive trees identifies inflation as one the most important statistical determinants of growth. Finally, while there are short-run growth costs of disinflation, these are only relevant for the most severe disinflations, or when the initial inflation rate is well within the single-digit range. Mode of access: Internet Phillips, Steven. IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 1998/068 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/1998/068/001.1998.issue-068-en.xml IMF e-Library