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Liquidity, Capital Pledgeability and Inflation Redistribution
Abstract: We study the redistributive effects of expected inflation in a microfounded monetary model with heterogeneous discount factors and collateral constraints. In equilibrium, this heterogeneity leads to borrowing and lending. Model assumptions also guarantee a tractable distribution of money and capital holdings. Several results emerge from our analysis. First, in this framework expected inflation is detrimental to capital accumulation. Second, expected inflation affects borrowing and lending when collateral constraints are present, thus also inducing redistributive effects through credit. Third, we find this channel to be regressive when we calibrate our model using US data. This is because the drop in borrowers’ capital caused by inflation is larger when capital is used as collateral.
Keywords: money; heterogeneity; collateral constraints; welfare costs of inflation;
https://doi.org/10.26509/frbc-wp-202126
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Provider: Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
Part of Series: Working Papers
Publication Date: 2021-11-10
Number: 21-26