Correcting
money illusion can help people to understand the real rate of return earned on investments and to appreciate that a fixed nominal stream of payments has falling purchasing power over time.
Money illusion is most likely to occur when inflation is unanticipated, so that people's expectations of inflation turn out to be some distance from the correct level.
Alternatively, the economy may achieve sustainable growth only at very low levels of inflation (or, per Selgin, deflation), but the
money illusion still causes unemployment at these low levels of inflation.
The concept of
money illusion is critical here," he responds.
This would lead to a transfer of wealth to debtors from creditors and would result in falling living standards via
money illusion, rising prices, currency depreciation and loss of confidence.
Currency substitution (eurization) and
money illusion as the limited factors of devaluation implementation
The authors identify five aspects of animal spirits, confidence, fairness, corruption and bad faith,
money illusion, and stories.
However, the
money illusion hypothesis states that stock market investors suffer from
money illusion and incorrectly discount real cash flows with nominal discount rates, thereby causing the market's subjective expectation of the future equity premium to deviate systematically from the rational expectations (e.
There is no
money illusion if changes in the unit of account don't change anything real.
Under the broader rubric of animal spirits as they define it, Akerlof and Shiller cite five factors that cause behavior to deviate from rationality, devoting one chapter to each of them: confidence, fairness, corruption and antisocial behavior,
money illusion, and stories.
And Friedman was surely fight to deride the idea of a long-term unemployment-inflation tradeoff depending on
money illusion.
This result means that reward activation generally increases with income, but was significantly higher in situations where nominal incomes and prices were both 50 per cent higher, which supports the hypothesis that activity in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex is subject to
money illusion," The Telegraph quoted Prof Falk, as saying
