I’ve been writing about inflation for the better part of three months. It’s been exhausting. Most of my time has been … about inflation is not the fact that prices rise. What matters is that prices rise at different rates. In other words …, inflation creates winners and losers — it redistributes income. In this post, I’ll dive into the redistribution dynamics between …

Foreign price shocks have significant effects on functional income distribution and on inflation inequality. By ….g. food prices for low-wage workers). Based on the conflicting-claims inflation literature, we propose a new extension to this … with an inflation-targeting regime. We investigate the impacts of foreign price shocks on income and inflation inequality …

In the present paper it will be pointed out with panel data that inflation worsens income distribution, but not in a … linear way. More specifically, at lower inflation levels as inflation goes up, then income distribution worsens more rapidly … than in the case of higher inflation levels (hyperinflation). The sample covers annually most western European countries …