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. Motivated by the case of an unanticipated inflation episode, we consider redistribution shocks that shift resources from old to …This paper shows that a zero-sum redistribution of wealth within a country can have persistent aggregate effects …
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Numerous studies document a positive correlation between inflation and income inequality. I show that this correlation … period and sample of countries. In the literature on the political economy of inflation, monetary financing and income taxes … are substitutes. Correspondingly, as the correlation between inequality and inflation has become more negative, the …
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by the liability progression of personal income tax in the pre-inflation period. Second, the impact of fiscal drag on the …
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We calibrate a sequence of four nested models to study the dynamics of wealth accumulation. Individuals maximize a utility function whose arguments are consumption and investment. They desire to accumulate wealth for its own sake - this is not a life-cycle model. A competitive firm produces a...
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We analyse the distributional effects of increased oil excises in Belgium by combining a Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model with the EUROMOD microsimulation framework that exploits the rich detail of household-level data. The link between the CGE model and the micro level is top-down,...
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A persistent and very high-income inequality is a well known feature of the Brazilian economy. However, from 2001 to 2005 the Gini index presented an unprecedented fall of 4.6 percent combined with significant poverty reduction. Previous studies using partial equilibrium analysis have pointed...
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We analyse the distributional effects of increased oil excises in Belgium by combining a regional Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) model with a microsimulation framework that exploits the rich detail of household-level data. The results suggest that policymakers face an equity-efficiency...
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This paper studies the redistributive and revenue effects of bracket creep in Germany under various inflation scenarios … micro-simulation model developed for the newly available PHF data, we document an inverted U-shaped overall redistribution … effect of the tax system with respect to the inflation rate, which contrasts Immervoll (2005) who finds that the fiscal drag …
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This paper investigated the link between inflation and the top decile income share after the global financial crisis …. The analysis was done on a sample of 42 countries. We found that higher inflation has reduced the income going to the top … decile. The main explanation is that inflation has eroded their labour income, differently from the low-income individuals …
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We present new empirical evidence for the US economy that inflation reduces the inequality of the earnings distribution … higher inflation on income distribution is shown to be rather small. However, we find that a longer duration between two …
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