Saturday, August 10, 2013

Pigou-Effect...


This thing what i thought to be only my stand on deflation and falling prices but it turned out to be “Pigou-effect” which students are taught during studies. I have also studied it in my (incomplete) PG but forgot what it says but when i read “real cash balances” it was not difficult to recapture by the meaning…


Any ways, Pigou-Effect is materialized when prices fall (it’s a deflation) to establish or restore full employment. When prices fall the value of the cash balances people are holding increases in value because they, now, can purchase more with the same quantity of money. The “real” value of money increases.

 I added that we should float a lower re-denomination of any currency to increase the space in which prices can fall. And (thought) the US could’ve gained from deflation and falling prices…

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