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Quasi-Real Indexing-- The Pareto-Efficient Solution to Inflation Indexing

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  • David Eagle

    (Eastern Washington University)

  • Dale Domian

    (York University)

Abstract

In a pure-exchange economy with one good, stochastic aggregate demand and supply, and consumers having the same relative-risk aversion, Pareto efficiency requires each individual’s consumption to be proportional to aggregate supply. While neither nominal contracts nor pure inflation- indexed contracts provide this proportionality, quasi-real contracts do. Quasi-real contracts adjust for aggregate-demand-caused inflation but not for aggregate-supply-caused inflation, causing their real obligations to be proportional to aggregate supply. When consumers differ in their relative risk aversion, or experience stochastic utility or endowment shocks, they will need insurance and other risk-transfer contracts in addition to quasi-real contracts.

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Paper provided by EconWPA in its series Finance with number 0509017.

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Length: 35 pages
Date of creation: 12 Sep 2005
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Handle: RePEc:wpa:wuwpfi:0509017

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  1. Black, Fischer & Scholes, Myron S, 1973. "The Pricing of Options and Corporate Liabilities," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 81(3), pages 637-54, May-June.
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  1. Guest Blog: The Two Fundamental Welfare Principles of Monetary Economics (By David Eagle)
    by Lars Christensen in The Market Monetarist on 2012-01-20 21:51:45
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  1. David Eagle, 2005. "Completing Markets in a One-Good, Pure Exchange Economy Without State-Contingent Securities," Finance 0501009, EconWPA.
  2. David Eagle, 2005. "The Inflation Dynamics of Pegging Interest Rates," Macroeconomics 0502029, EconWPA.
  3. Eagle, David M. & Christensen, Lars, 2012. "Two Equations on the Pareto-Efficient Sharing of Real GDP Risk," MPRA Paper 41051, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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