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 …

Inflation and earnings growth can push some tax payers into higher brackets in the absence of inflation …-indexed schedules. Moreover, inflation may affect the composition of individuals’ income sources. As a result, depending on the relative … tax burden of labour and capital, inflation may decrease or increase the difference between before-tax and after …

inflation and Tobin’s q; a normalized market price of capital. This stylized fact is explained within a dynamic stochastic … rising marginal cost of investment, (ii) production of human capital with endogenous growth and (iii) an inflation tax cash …-in-advance economy. The baseline endogenous growth model matches the US inflation and q long term correlation, while comparable exogenous …

This study analyzes the question whether gold provides the ability of hedging against inflation from a new perspective …: First, we show that gold is partially able to hedge future inflation in the long-run and this ability is stronger for the … characterized by regime-dependence, implying that the usefulness of gold as an inflation hedge for investors crucially depends on …

Recently a market in options based on CPI inflation (inflation caps and floors) has emerged in the US. This paper uses … quotes on these derivatives to construct probability densities for inflation. We study how these pdfs respond to news … empirical pricing kernels. The options-implied densities assign considerably more mass to extreme inflation outcomes (either …

Inflation and earnings growth can push some tax payers into higher brackets in the absence of inflation …-indexed schedules. Moreover, inflation may affect the composition of individuals’ income sources. As a result, depending on the relative … tax burden of labor and capital, inflation may decrease or increase the difference between before and after-tax income …