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calculating the gain from price stability, the paper emphasizes the distortions caused by the interaction of inflation and capital … income taxes. Because inflation exacerbates the tax distortions that would exist even with price stability, the annual … deadweight loss of a two percent inflation rate is a surprisingly large one percent of GDP. Since the real gain from shifting to …
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This paper, which was written as a part of the NBER project on American economic policy in the 1980s, reviews some of the major changes in monetary policy during that period. The paper tries to explain why policies changed in the way that they did and looks particularly at the role of economists...
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hyperexpansive' monetary policy to reduce the risk that a low rate of inflation will lead to a deflationary situation in which …
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Since the spring of 1990, the rates of growth of real income, of nominal income, and of the broad monetary aggregate (M2) have been substantially less than the Federal Reserve had set as targets and than most observers regarded as appropriate. The breakdown of the traditional economic relations...
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The present paper analyses the effect of the interaction between tax rules and inflation on the size and allocation of … show that, with current U.S. tax laws, an increase in the rate of inflation reduces the equilibrium amount of business … inflation lowers the real net-of-tax rate of return to the provider of business capital. In a richer model than the current one …
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This paper discusses the effects of the interaction between inflation and the taxation of capital income. The principal … conclusions are: (1) Inflation substantially increases the total effective tax rate on the income from capital used in the … between inflation and existing tax rules contributed to the fall in the ratio of share prices to real pretax earnings, or …
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the period from 1953 through1978. The analysis emphasizes that the Interaction of inflation and existing tax rules has …
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Much of the recent discussion about the relation between pensions and inflation has emphasized the adverse impact that … the un-expected rise in inflation has had on pension recipients and on the performance of pension funds. In contrast, the … present paper focuses on the way that pensions are likely to evolve in response to the expectation of continued inflation in …
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This paper presents an explicit model of portfolio demand and uses it to show how the rate of inflation and its … papers which studied how the interaction of inflation and tax rules alter the real prices of land and stock. The analysis …
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This paper shows how the interaction of tax rules and expected inflation can decrease substantially the share price per …
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