 Welfare costs of inflation when interest-bearing deposits are disregarded: A calculation of the biasRubens Cysne and David Turchick Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2010, vol. 34, issue 6, 1015-1030 Abstract: Most estimates of the welfare costs of inflation are devised considering only noninterest-bearing assets, ignoring that since the 1980s technological innovations and new regulations have increased the liquidity of interest-bearing deposits. We investigate the resulting bias. Sufficient and necessary conditions on its sign are presented, along with closed-form expressions for its magnitude. Two examples dealing with bidimensional bilogarithmic money demands show that disregarding interest-bearing monies may lead to a non-negligible overestimation of the welfare costs of inflation. An intuitive explanation is that such assets may partially make up for the decreased demand of noninterest-bearing assets due to higher inflation. Keywords: Welfare; Inflation; Money; demand; Divisia; index; Interest-bearing; monies (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:dyncon:v:34:y:2010:i:6:p:1015-1030 Access Statistics for this article Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control is currently edited by J. Bullard, C. Chiarella, H. Dawid, C. H. Hommes, P. Klein and C. Otrok More articles in Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control from Elsevier |
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