GROWTH, DISINFLATION AND DISTRIBUTION: ANOTHER IMPOSSIBLE TRINITY?

This paper builds a theoretical model that seeks to explore the disinflationary and distributional effects of economic growth. With no margin to fix the nominal exchange rate, and with a lack of credibility of the monetary authority, growth can be an alternative to disinflation if it is supported by...

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Autores: Fares, Florencia Melisa, Zack, Guido, Libman, Emiliano
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:México
Institución:UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO
Repositorio:Investigación Económica
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/84940
Acceso en línea:https://www.revistas.unam.mx/index.php/rie/article/view/84940
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:desinflación
distribución del ingreso
crecimiento
Disinflation
income distribution
economic growth
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Sumario:This paper builds a theoretical model that seeks to explore the disinflationary and distributional effects of economic growth. With no margin to fix the nominal exchange rate, and with a lack of credibility of the monetary authority, growth can be an alternative to disinflation if it is supported by productivity increases. Under not so particular conditions, associated with the value of employment-output and imports-output elasticities, not only is it not necessary to give up growth to reduce inflation, but it also allows reducing unit production costs through productivity increases. However, this growth-based strategy brings with it greater income inequality, and if wages are very sensitive to output growth it could be counterproductive to disinflation.