Inflation and Inequality

Stefania Albanesi
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Stefania Albanesi: Bocconi University

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Abstract: Cross-country evidence on inflation and income inequality suggests that they are positively correlated. I explore the hypothesis that this correlation is the outcome of a distributional conflict underlying the determination of fiscal policy.

Keywords: Inflation; Inequality; Distribution; Bargaining (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E4 E5 E6 H2 H3 D7 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cba, nep-mac and nep-pbe
Date: 2002-01-10
Note: Type of Document - Acrobat PDF; prepared on IBM PC ; to print on HP; pages: 53 ; figures: included. 53 pages PDF format
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