On Price Stability and Welfare / / Etienne Yehoue

• Autore: Yehoue Etienne
• Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (37 p.)
• Soggetto topico: Price regulation; Welfare economics; Banks and Banking; Inflation; Macroeconomics; Money and Monetary Policy; Mathematical Methods; Price Level; Deflation; Demand for Money; Money and Interest Rates: Forecasting and Simulation; Monetary Policy; Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions; Interest Rates: Determination, Term Structure, and Effects; Monetary economics; Finance; Inflation targeting; Demand for money; Personal income; Real interest rates; Monetary policy; Prices; Money; National accounts; Financial services; Income; Interest rates
• Soggetto geografico: United States
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; I. Introduction; II. Inflation and Growth; III. Inflation and Welfare: A General Equilibrium Approach; Tables; 1. Inflation Targets or Definitions of Price Stability in Selected Countries; A. The Opportunity Cost Channel; B. A Simple Model of Inflation and Welfare; 2. Summary of the Calibration Results; C. The Menu Cost Channel; D. Some Caveats; IV. Balancing Costs and Benefits; V. Concluding Remarks; Figures; 1. Welfare Cost Function with Log-Log Money Demand Function, Alpha = 0.5 and K= (0.05) ; 2. Welfare Cost Function with Log-Log Money Demand Function, Alpha = 0.5 and K = exp (0.05)3. Welfare Cost Function with Semi-Log Money Demand Function, Alpha = 7 and K= (0.3548); 4. Welfare Cost Function with Semi-Log Money Demand Function, Alpha = 7 and K = exp(0.3548); 5. Welfare Costs at Various Inflation Targets with Log-Log Money Demand Function, Alpha = 0.5 and K = (0.05); 6. Welfare Costs at Various Inflation Targets with Log-Log Money Demand Function, Alpha = 0.5 and K = exp (0.05) ; 7. Welfare Costs at Various Inflation Targets with Semi-Log Money Demand Function, Alpha = 7 and K = (0.3548)8. Welfare Costs at Various Inflation Targets with Semi-Log Money Demand Function, Alpha = 7 and K = exp (0.3548); 9. Welfare Costs at Various Inflation Targets with Semi-Log Money Demand Function, Alpha = 1.7944 and K = (0.1686); 10. Welfare Costs at Various Inflation Targets with Semi-Log Money Demand Function, Alpha = 1.7944 and K = exp (0.1686); 11. Welfare Costs at Various Inflations with Log-Log Money Demand Function, Alpha = 0.5 and K = (0.05) ; 12. Welfare Costs at Various Inflations with Log-Log Money Demand Function, Alpha = 0.5 and K = exp (0.05)13. Welfare Costs at Various Inflations with Semi-Log Money Demand Function, Alpha = 7 and K = (0.3548); 14. Welfare Costs at Various Inflations with Semi-Log Money Demand Function, Alpha = 7 and K = exp (0.3548); References
• Sommario/riassunto: The financial crisis in the advanced countries that began in 2007 has led central bankers to adopt unconventional policy measures as policy interest rates neared the zero bound. One suggestion (Blanchard, Dell’Ariccia, and Mauro, 2010) has been to raise inflation targets to provide more room for policy rate easing during crises. This paper addresses a different issue: the relationship between inflation and welfare. The literature is surveyed and a model is developed. A key conclusion is that an increase in inflation targets gives rise to additional welfare costs, even after the extra room to maneuver above the zero lower bound for nominal policy rates is taken into account. Based on parameter values that fit U.S. data, the additional welfare costs of raising inflation targets from 2 to 4 percent are estimated at about 0.3 percent of annual real income. A rise to 10 percent would yield additional welfare costs of about 1 percent of real income. Other parameter values yield welfare costs as high as 7 (respectively 30) percent of real income for raising inflation targets from 2 to 4 (respectively from 2 to 10) percent. The full costs of raising inflation targets are likely to be higher because the model used to generate these estimates does not account for higher inflation-induced volatility.
• Titolo autorizzato: On Price Stability and Welfare
• ISBN: 1-4755-7925-X; 1-4755-1365-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910786483003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; ; No. 2012/189