Ownership of Capital in Monetary Economies and the Inflation Tax on Equity

Author/Editor:

Thomas F. Cosimano ; Ralph Chami ; Connel Fullenkamp

Publication Date:

December 1, 1999

Electronic Access:

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Summary:

Financial instruments are subject to inflation taxes on the wealth they represent and on the nominal income flows they provide. This paper explicitly introduces financial instruments into the standard stochastic growth model with money and production and shows that the value of the firm in this case 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 other papers by the addition of a significant wealth tax.

Series:

Working Paper No. 1999/167

Subject:

English

Publication Date:

December 1, 1999

ISBN/ISSN:

9781451858167/1018-5941

Stock No:

WPIEA1671999

Pages:

44

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