Estimating the Welfare Costs of Very High Inflations and Hyperinflations

We explore the welfare costs of inflation originating from lack of liquidity satiation for Weimar Republic’s hyperinflation and three high-inflation countries. Towards the peak of Weimar’s hyperinflation the costs are estimated to have been equal to nearly 20 per cent of income. For Israel, Mexic...

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Autores principales: Nicolini, Juan Pablo, Benati, Luca
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spelling I57-R163-20.500.13098-125872024-04-13T07:00:11Z Estimating the Welfare Costs of Very High Inflations and Hyperinflations Nicolini, Juan Pablo Benati, Luca High inflation Hyper Inflation Inflación Ciclos economicos Economic cycles We explore the welfare costs of inflation originating from lack of liquidity satiation for Weimar Republic’s hyperinflation and three high-inflation countries. Towards the peak of Weimar’s hyperinflation the costs are estimated to have been equal to nearly 20 per cent of income. For Israel, Mexico, and Argentina the costs had been materially lower, but still in the range of 3-5 per cent of GDP. 2024-04-12T16:29:51Z 2024-04-12T16:29:51Z 2024 info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion https://repositorio.utdt.edu/handle/20.500.13098/12587 eng info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5/ar/ 19 p. application/pdf application/pdf Universität Bern
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topic High inflation
Hyper Inflation
Inflación
Ciclos economicos
Economic cycles
spellingShingle High inflation
Hyper Inflation
Inflación
Ciclos economicos
Economic cycles
Nicolini, Juan Pablo
Benati, Luca
Estimating the Welfare Costs of Very High Inflations and Hyperinflations
topic_facet High inflation
Hyper Inflation
Inflación
Ciclos economicos
Economic cycles
description We explore the welfare costs of inflation originating from lack of liquidity satiation for Weimar Republic’s hyperinflation and three high-inflation countries. Towards the peak of Weimar’s hyperinflation the costs are estimated to have been equal to nearly 20 per cent of income. For Israel, Mexico, and Argentina the costs had been materially lower, but still in the range of 3-5 per cent of GDP.
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title_short Estimating the Welfare Costs of Very High Inflations and Hyperinflations
title_full Estimating the Welfare Costs of Very High Inflations and Hyperinflations
title_fullStr Estimating the Welfare Costs of Very High Inflations and Hyperinflations
title_full_unstemmed Estimating the Welfare Costs of Very High Inflations and Hyperinflations
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