Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/55320 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 3711
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
This paper develops an overlapping-generations model with heterogeneous agents in terms of earning ability and cash-in-advance constraint. It shows that tax policy cannot fully replicate or neutralize the redistributive implications of monetary policy. While who gets the extra money becomes irrelevant, the rate of growth of money supply keeps its bite. A second lesson is that the Friedman rule is not in general optimal. The results are due to the existence of another source of heterogeneity among individuals besides differences in earning ability that underlies the Mirrleesian approach to optimal taxation. They hold even in the presence of a general income tax and preferences that are separable in labor supply and goods. If differences in earning ability were the only source of heterogeneity, the fiscal authority would be able to neutralize the effects of a change in the rate of monetary growth and a version of the Friedman rule becomes optimal.
Subjects: 
monetary policy
fiscal policy
redistribution
Friedman rule
heterogeneity
overlapping generations
second best
JEL: 
H21
E52
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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