Finocchiaro, Daria; Lombardo, Giovanni; Mendicino, Caterina - 2015
This paper revisits the equilibrium and welfare effects of long-run inflation in the presence of distortionary taxes … and financial constraints. Expected inflation interacts with corporate taxation through the deductibility of i) capital … expenditures at historical value and ii) interest payments on debt. Through the first channel, inflation increases firms’ taxable …