Forced Saving and Repressed Inflation in the Soviet Union, 1986-90: Some Empirical Results

Carlo Cottarelli and Mario I. Blejer
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Carlo Cottarelli: International Monetary Fund
Mario I. Blejer: International Monetary Fund

IMF Staff Papers, 1992, vol. 39, issue 2, 256-286

Abstract: In countries like the former Soviet Union, where wealth is mainly stored in monetary assets, the behavior of the money-income ratio is a poor indicator of the growth of undesired monetary balances (monetary overhang). In those countries a monetary overhang is primarily a wealth overhang, which has to be analyzed by evaluating deviations of actual from desired wealth holdings; this requires an empirical analysis of consumption and saving decisions. In this paper, a consumption function for the Soviet Union is estimated, from which an evaluation of the monetary overhang existing at end-1990 is derived.

JEL-codes: D12 E21 E41 P22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1992
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