Investment in Inflationary Economies

September 1, 1996

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Eduardo Levy Yeyati. Investment in Inflationary Economies, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 1996) accessed November 21, 2024

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Summary

The paper presents a model of irreversible investment under uncertainty, where investment takes place whenever a threshold level of marginal returns is reached. The threshold depends positively on price volatility; a change from high to low inflation induces an upward capital stock adjustment. In economies that move in and out of temporary stabilizations, the observed effect is a negative inflation-investment correlation that replicates previous empirical findings, due to purely short-term dynamics. I study how this correlation is affected by the expected duration of each regime. Empirical evidence from ten inflationary economies confirms the predictions of the model.

Subject: Consumer price indexes, Inflation, Price stabilization, Prices

Keywords: Aggregate investment, Consumer price indexes, CPI inflation rates, Inflation, Inflation-investment relation, Investment behavior, Investment decision rule, Investment-volatility relation, Price stabilization, Price volatility, Stability-investment relationship, Threshold investment decision rule, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

32
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Series:

Working Paper No. 1996/105
Stock No:

WPIEA1051996
ISBN:

9781451947571
ISSN:

1018-5941

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