Progressive tax-like effects of inflation: Fact or myth? The U.S. post-war experience
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bracket creep; progressive income taxation; inflation; income distribution;JEL classification:
- D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
- E31 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Price Level; Inflation; Deflation
- E44 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Financial Markets and the Macroeconomy
- E52 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Monetary Policy
- E62 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Fiscal Policy
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ALL-2018-02-26 (All new papers)
- NEP-HIS-2018-02-26 (Business, Economic & Financial History)
- NEP-MAC-2018-02-26 (Macroeconomics)
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