Capital Trading, Stock Trading, and the Inflation Tax on Equity: A Note

11 Pages Posted: 2 Nov 2007

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Scott L. Baier

Clemson University - John E. Walker Department of Economics

Charles T. Carlstrom

Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland

Ralph Chami

International Monetary Fund (IMF)

Thomas F. Cosimano

University of Notre Dame; International Monetary Fund

Timothy S. Fuerst

University of Notre Dame

Connel Fullenkamp

Duke University - Department of Economics

Date Written: December 2003

Abstract

In "Capital Trading, Stock Trading, and the Inflation Tax on Equity," Chami, Cosimano, and Fullenkamp (2001) (hereafter, CCF) analyze a cash-in-advance model in which capital goods are explicitly traded. The authors show that there is more responsiveness of consumption and output to changes in the money supply than exists in the standard neoclassical growth models. This note demonstrates that this arises because CCF implicitly imposed an additional equilibrium restriction on the Cooley and Hansen (1989) model. This restriction can be imposed only if the Cooley and Hansen model is subject to real indeterminacy which occurs whenever the risk aversion coefficient (denoted by lambda in the CCF paper) exceeds 2.

Keywords: used-capital market, indeterminacy

JEL Classification: C68, E32, E44

Suggested Citation

Baier, Scott Leonard and Carlstrom, Charles T. and Chami, Ralph and Cosimano, Thomas F. and Fuerst, Timothy S. and Fullenkamp, Connel, Capital Trading, Stock Trading, and the Inflation Tax on Equity: A Note (December 2003). FRB of Cleveland Working Paper No. 03-21, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1026072 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1026072

Scott Leonard Baier

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