Anti-inflation taxation policy: An alternative to wage and price controls |
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Authors: | Richard A. Ashley |
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Affiliation: | University of Texas, Austin, USA |
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Abstract: | One reason the postwar economy has become increasingly inflation prone is that oligopolistic firms tend to act as if demand is completely inelastic for price increases no greater than the expected rate of inflation. Hence, in the absence of mandatory price controls, there is no effective disincentive at the individual firm level to price increases of this magnitude. The policy proposed below provides such a disincentive by linking each firm's tax rate to the increase in its revenues attributable to price changes. |
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