Capital Trading, Stock Trading, and the Inflation Tax on Equity

Ralph Chami, Thomas Cosimano () and Connel Fullenkamp ()

Review of Economic Dynamics, 2001, vol. 4, issue 3, 575-606

Abstract: A market for used capital goods, or financial instruments that represent the ownership of the used capital goods, induces inflation taxes on wealth and on the nominal income flows they provide. This paper explicitly introduces trading in either used capital goods or financial instruments into the standard stochastic growth model with money and production. These two monetary economies are equivalent. The value of the firm is equal to the firm's capital stock divided by inflation. The resulting asset pricing conditions indicate that the effect of inflation on asset returns differs from the effects found in the literature by the addition of a significant wealth tax. (Copyright: Elsevier)

Keywords: Inflation tax; Asset returns; used capital; Stock market. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E0 E4 E5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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DOI: 10.1006/redy.2001.0129

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