RIEB セミナー (RIEB Seminar)

日時:
(Date&Time)
7月5日(金)午後3時30分から (Friday, July 5, 3:30pm〜)
報告者:
(Speaker)
大垣 昌夫 (OGAKI Masao)
所属:
(Affiliation)
オハイオ州立大学 (Ohio State University)
論題:
(Topic)
The Distortionary Effects of Inflation: An Empirical Investigation
概要:
(Abstract)
多くの現金財と信用財を含む貨幣モデルでは、主なインフレーションの福祉コストはインフレーションによってこれらの2財の選択がディストーションされることに由来する。この論文の主な目的は、そのようなディストーションを検出する新しい統計学の方法を提唱することである。この方法は貨幣モデルの長期制約に基づいて導出される。

In a wide class of monetary models with both cash and credit goods, the main welfare cost of inflation is that it distorts the choice between these two goods.� In these models, distortions exist because the relevant measure of the relative price between cash and credit goods for consumers is the usual relative price discounted by the nominal interest rate.� Changes in the inflation rate therefore create distortions by affecting the nominal interest rate.� This paper proposes a new statistical method for detecting the existence and magnitude of this distortion in a monetary model of the consumption-leisure choice.� The empirical analysis is motivated by deriving a long-run restriction between the stochastic and deterministic trends of real consumption, the real wage rate and the gross nominal interest rate from the first-order conditions of the representative agent's optimization problem.� Using nondurable- and food-consumption as cash goods, and leisure as the credit good, this method is applied to a diverse group of 12 economies.� The evidence suggests that such distortions exist and tend to be statistically and economically significant for most high- and medium-inflation economies, but not for low-inflation economies.
会場:
(Place)
神戸大学経済経営研究所 調査室 (兼松記念館1階)
Seminar room at RIEB ( Kanematsu Memorial Hall 1st floor )
備考:
(Note)

論文のコピーは開催日の1週間前に研究助成室にご用意いたします。
Copies of the paper will be available one week before the seminar at Research Assistant Room.