Time inconsistency and the long-run effects of inflation

Karl Boulware, Robert Reed () and Ejindu Ume

Economics Letters, 2013, vol. 120, issue 2, 267-270

Abstract: Recent work by Laibson (1997) identifies that individuals’ time discount factors evolve over time. This leads to a time-inconsistency problem in which savings are distorted. This paper studies the long-run effects of inflation in the presence of a time-inconsistency problem.

Keywords: Inflation; Hyperbolic discounting; Time inconsistency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E21 E41 E52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2013.04.047

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