• DocumentCode
    2652348
  • Title

    Poverty and Inequality are the Byproducts of Asymmetric Monetary Policy?

  • Author

    Lei, SHI ; Yong-qin, CAO ; Ze-xiang, LI

  • Author_Institution
    Fudan Univ., Shanghai
  • fYear
    2007
  • fDate
    20-22 Aug. 2007
  • Firstpage
    1213
  • Lastpage
    1219
  • Abstract
    We study asymmetric monetary policy´s influences on poverty with menu costs model. Price rigidity causes the asymmetric output-price adjustment, so monetary policy has asymmetric effect that the expansion causes insignificant climbing output and substantial higher price level, but the contraction leads to significant output loss and inconspicuous downward price. The contraction policy is larger than the expansion for keeping price level stable, so the boom-bust cycle raises average poverty. Poverty is caused by the alternate expansionary and contractive monetary policy which is called cost of stability, so it is byproduct of asymmetric monetary policy. It changes the trade-off between unemployment and inflation, which determines the Phillips Curve depending on Tobin´s binding wage-floor and Eckstein-Brinner partial-ignorance effects. We testify that there exists optimum inflation rate satisfying to stabilize macroeconomy and improve poverty simultaneously. This paper induces the Philips Curve from a new view of asymmetric monetary policy, and suggests structural and loose inflation-target monetary policy should improve poverty in the transitional economy like China.
  • Keywords
    inflation (monetary); macroeconomics; pricing; salaries; socio-economic effects; unemployment; Eckstein-Brinner partial-ignorance effects; Phillips Curve; asymmetric monetary policy; asymmetric output-price adjustment; binding wage-floor; boom-bust cycle; contractive monetary policy; inflation; macroeconomy stability; menu costs model; poverty; price rigidity; transitional economy; unemployment; Conference management; Costs; Economics; Educational institutions; Employment; Engineering management; Macroeconomics; Stability; Testing; Unemployment; asymmetry; inflation rate; menu cost; monetary policy; poverty and inequality;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Management Science and Engineering, 2007. ICMSE 2007. International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Harbin
  • Print_ISBN
    978-7-88358-080-5
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-7-88358-080-5
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICMSE.2007.4422011
  • Filename
    4422011