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

B-Tier
Journal: Review of Economic Dynamics
Year: 2001
Volume: 4
Issue: 3
Pages: 575-606

Authors (3)

Ralph Chami (not in RePEc) Thomas F. Cosimano (not in RePEc) Connel Fullenkamp (Duke University)

Score contribution per author:

0.670 = (α=2.01 / 3 authors) × 1.0x B-tier

α: calibrated so average coauthorship-adjusted count equals average raw count

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)

Technical Details

RePEc Handle
repec:red:issued:v:4:y:2001:i:3:p:575-606
Journal Field
Macro
Author Count
3
Added to Database
2026-01-25