ECONOMICS WEBINAR - Redistribution and the Monetary-Fiscal Policy Mix

3:00am - 4:30am
Zoom Meeting ID: 968 790 9998 (password 9913589)

We show that the effectiveness of redistribution policy is tied to how much inflation it generates, and thereby, to monetary-fiscal adjustments that ultimately finance the transfers. In the monetary regime, taxes increase to finance transfers while in the fiscal regime, inflation rises, imposing inflation taxes on public debt holders. We show analytically that the fiscal regime generates larger and more persistent inflation than the monetary regime. In a two-sector model, we quantify the effects of the CARES Act in a COVID recession. We find that transfer multipliers are larger, and that moreover, redistribution is Pareto improving, under the fiscal regime.

Venue Opening Hour
3:00pm
Event Format
Speakers / Performers:
Prof. Jae Won Lee
Seoul National University

https://econ.snu.ac.kr/people/faculty?mode=view&profidx=32

Language
English
Recommended For
Alumni
Faculty and staff
PG students
Organizer
Department of Economics
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