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Inflation is always an important indicator to measure whether economy is stable and healthy. This paper provides a … substantive survey of the research on the welfare cost of inflation, and uses the methods of consumer's surplus and neo …-classical general equilibrium models respectively to estimate the welfare cost of inflation in China. The results show that high …
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Empirical and experimental evidence documents that money illusion is persistent and widespread. This paper incorporates money illusion into two stochastic continuous-time monetary models of endogenous growth. Motivated by psychology, we model an agent's money illusion behavior by assuming that...
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low but still positive rates of inflation, provides an adequate approximation in welfare terms to the alternative of …
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Empirical and experimental evidence documents that money illusion is persistent and widespread. This paper incorporates money illusion into a stochastic continuous-time monetary model of endogenous growth. We model an agent's money illusion behavior by assuming that he maximizes nonstandard...
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This paper reviews theory and evidence of the welfare effects of inflation from a costbenefit perspective. Basic models … and selected empirical results are discussed. Historically, in assessing the welfare effects of inflation, the distortion … of money demand played a prominent role. More recently, interactions of inflation and taxation came into focus. Growth …
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In times of inflation, most existing systems of taxation introduce new distortions into the allocation of resources. In … this paper, the effects of inflation via taxes on the firm's east of capital are analyzed. The taxes considered are the … market rates of return are adjusted for inflation. This makes it possible to determine the net effects of inflation on …
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whereas the other type of agents cannot. If the sales tax is perfectly substituted by the inflation tax, then there is no way …
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This paper reviews theory and evidence of the welfare effects of inflation from a costbenefit perspective. Basic models … and selected empirical results are discussed. Historically, in assessing the welfare effects of inflation, the distortion … of money demand played a prominent role. More recently, interactions of inflation and taxation came into focus. Growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012991253
inflation tax. However, if imposing a positive sales tax is inevitable for central bank independence, there arises an …
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This paper studies the implications of an increase in the price of necessities, which disproportionally hurts the poor, for optimal income taxation. Our analyses show that, when the government is utilitarian and disutility from labor supply is linear, the optimal net nominal tax schedule is...
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