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Forced Savings and Repressed Inflation in the Soviet Union: Some Empirical Results

By Mario I. Bléjer, Carlo Cottarelli

June 1, 1991

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Mario I. Bléjer, and Carlo Cottarelli. Forced Savings and Repressed Inflation in the Soviet Union: Some Empirical Results, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1991) accessed November 21, 2024
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Summary

In countries such as the Soviet Union, where wealth is mainly stored in monetary assets, the behavior of the money to income ratio is a poor indicator of the growth of undesired monetary balances (monetary overhang). In those countries a monetary overhang is primarily a wealth overhang, which has to be analyzed by evaluating deviations of actual from desired wealth holdings; this requires an empirical analysis of consumption and saving decisions. In this paper, we present estimates of a consumption function for the Soviet Union, from which an evaluation of the monetary overhang existing at the end of 1990 is derived.

Subject: Consumption, Disposable income, Household consumption, Income, Inflation, National accounts, Prices

Keywords: Consumer goods, Consumption, Consumption behavior, Consumption expenditure, Disposable income, Equation C, Excess demand, Household consumption, Income, Inflation, Liberalization policy, Price level, Price liberalization, Round price effect, Saving propensity, Wealth overhang, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    62

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 1991/055

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA0551991

  • ISBN:

    9781451847550

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941

Notes

Also published in Staff Papers, Vol. 39, No. 2, June 1992.

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