How to reduce inflation without increasing unemployment and income inequality

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Existing analyses have failed to emphasise inflation’s underlying distributional sources and outcomes. Rafael Wildauer, Karsten Kohler, Adam Aboobaker and Alexander Guschanski present a macroeconomic model that analyses how energy price shocks trigger redistribution between workers and firms, and between different sectors of the economy. For them, a windfall tax can redistribute energy profits towards workers, a promising policy tool for reducing inflation without increasing unemployment and income inequality.