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.