Inflation and Inequality

Stefania Albanesi

No 3470, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

Abstract: Cross-country evidence on inflation and 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; Distributional conflict; Fiscal policy; Bargaining (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D70 E00 E40 E50 E60 H20 H30 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002-07
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-dev and nep-mac
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (16)

Downloads: (external link)
https://cepr.org/publications/DP3470 (application/pdf)
CEPR Discussion Papers are free to download for our researchers, subscribers and members. If you fall into one of these categories but have trouble downloading our papers, please contact us at subscribers@cepr.org

Related works:
Journal Article: Inflation and inequality (2007)
Working Paper: Inflation and Inequality (2002)
Working Paper: Inflation and Inequality (2001)
Working Paper: Inflation and Inequality
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:cpr:ceprdp:3470

Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from
https://cepr.org/publications/DP3470

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers Centre for Economic Policy Research, 33 Great Sutton Street, London EC1V 0DX.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by ().