Welfare costs of inflation when interest-bearing deposits are disregardeda calculation of the bias
Cysne, Rubens Penha; Turchick, David
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Resumo
Most estimates of the welfare costs of in ation are devised considering only noninterest- bearing assets, ignoring that since the 80s technological innovations and new regulations have increased the liquidity of interest-bearing deposits. We investigate the resulting bias. Suscient and necessary conditions on its sign are presented, along with closed-form expressions for its magnitude. Two examples dealing with bidimensional bilogarithmic money demands show that disregarding interest-bearing monies may lead to a non-negligible overestimation of the welfare costs of in ation. An intuitive explanation is that such assets may partially make up for the decreased demand of noninterest-bearing assets due to higher in ation.
Ficha do documento
- Tipo
- Estudo
- Ano
- 2010
- Instituição
- Fundação Getulio Vargas. Escola de Pós-graduação em Economia
- Fonte
- Repositório da FGV
- Idioma
- Inglês
- Acesso
- Não informado
- Identificador
- oai:repositorio.fgv.br:10438/4152
- Temas
- Economia
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