Inflation A general increase in prices caused by too much money in the circular flow.
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Inflation
A general increase in prices caused by too much money in the circular flow
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Imagine you have a job that pays $50 a day. You are pretty happy with your job and your ability to pay your bills with your income. At the end of the work day you receive your $50 and stop at the grocery store to buy dinner. When you get to the grocery store, you find out that your can of beeferoni is not $1.09 like it was yesterday, it is now $49. What happened?
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Types of inflation
Demand-Pull Inflation– Too much spending
chasing too few goods
Cost-Push Inflation– Supply shocks –
abrupt increases in the cost or raw materials or energy sources
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Hyperinflation
Radical inflation – money becomes worthless and is no longer used as a median of exchange economic collapse and political chaos– Examples: Germany after the war, after
break up of Soviet Union
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CPI – consumer price index
Indication of inflation calculated by sampling households and monitoring expenditures on specific goods and services
Core CPI takes out food and energy CPI not perfect – consumption patterns
change, doesn’t account for quality and hard to account for new products
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Downfalls of CPI Quality bias
– What happens when quality changes year to year?
New product bias – What happens when new products aren’t
considered in CPI right away? (also price changes)
Discounting and substitution – What happens when we shop in new
places?
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Fixed CPI calculation
YearTheatre tickets
(quantity)
Cinema tickets
(quantity)
Theatre ticket (price)
Cinema ticket (price)
2005 25 12 $40 $15
2006 15 18 $45 $10
(25 Theatre tickets x $45) + (12 Cinema tickets x $10) x 100(25 Theatre tickets x $40) + (12 Cinema tickets x $15)
= 105.5 or 5.5% inflation rate
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An alternative – chain weighted CPI
It implements weight shifting, which means the shift from one product to another due to the changed needs of the consumer.
Suggested as a way for the government to save money
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Chain weighted CPI calculation
YearTheatre tickets
(quantity)
Cinema tickets
(quantity)
Theatre ticket (price)
Cinema ticket (price)
2005 25 12 $40 $15
2006 15 18 $45 $10
(15 Theatre tickets x $45) + (18 Cinema tickets x $10) x 100(25 Theatre tickets x $40) + (12 Cinema tickets x $15)
= 72.5 or 27.5% deflation
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Unexpected Inflation
Unexpected inflation imposes costs on many people and benefits others because it arbitrarily redistributes purchasing power
Inflation can reduce the rate of growth of national living standards because individuals and organizations use resources to protect themselves against the uncertainty of future price changes
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Redistribution Effects Nominal income – the number of $
received as wages, rent, interest or profits
Real income- measure of the amounts of goods and services nominal income can buy
Real= nominal income / price index COLA – cost of living adjustment
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How are different people affected? Hurts savers and
people on fixed incomes
Helps people who borrowed money at a fixed rate
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MV = PQ Equation of Exchange
M – Quantity of Money in the Economy V – Velocity of Money P – Price Level Q – Total Final Output Produced
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