| 来源类型 | Discussion paper |
| 规范类型 | 论文 |
| 来源ID | DP10286 |
| DP10286 The Curse of Inflation | |
| Erik Eyster; Kristóf Madarász; Pascal Michaillat | |
| 发表日期 | 2014-12-07 |
| 出版年 | 2014 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | This paper proposes a model that explains the nonneutrality of money from two well-documented psychological assumptions. The model incorporates into the general-equilibrium monopolistic-competition framework of Blanchard and Kiyotaki [1987] the psychological assumptions that (1) consumers dislike paying a price that exceeds some ``fair'' markup on firms' marginal costs, and (2) consumers do not know firms' marginal costs and fail to infer them from prices. The first assumption in isolation renders the economy more competitive without changing any of its qualitative properties; in particular, money remains neutral. The two assumptions together cause money to be nonneutral: greater money supply induces lower monopolistic markups, higher hours worked, and higher output. Whereas an increase in money supply is expansionary, it decreases the fairness of transactions perceived by consumers to such an extent that it reduces overall welfare. The cost of inflation is a psychological one that derives from a mistaken belief by consumers that transactions have become less fair. In fact, it is this misperception that makes an increase in money supply expansionary: consumers misattribute the higher prices arising from higher money supply to higher markups; the misperception of higher markups angers them and makes their demand for goods more elastic; in response, monopolists reduce their markups, thus stimulating economic activity. Through a similar mechanism, an increase in technology induces higher output but higher monopolistic markups and lower hours worked. |
| 主题 | International Macroeconomics |
| 关键词 | Cursedness Fairness Markup Nonneutrality of money |
| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp10286 |
| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/539118 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Erik Eyster,Kristóf Madarász,Pascal Michaillat. DP10286 The Curse of Inflation. 2014. |
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