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INTEREST AND INFLATION ACCOUNTING
Author(s) -
Vanoli Abdré
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
review of income and wealth
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.024
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1475-4991
pISSN - 0034-6586
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-4991.1999.tb00341.x
Subject(s) - economics , nominal interest rate , inflation (cosmology) , real interest rate , interest rate , compensation (psychology) , monetary economics , capital (architecture) , macroeconomics , physics , theoretical physics , psychology , archaeology , psychoanalysis , history
This paper analyses the treatments proposed by Chapter XIX (Annex B) of the 1993 SNA and the manual Inflation Accounting published by the OECD (Peter Hill) as alternatives to the traditional recording of nominal interest. Real interest and interest prime (annex B) are relevant for different purposes. Their amounts are not the same to the extent that actual compensation and full required compensation for inflation differ. The recording of negative real interest is not compatible with the exclusion of holding gains/losses from the SNA current accounts. The accounting treatments in Inflation Accounting (capital transfers, additional lending/borrowing, no nominal holding gains/losses) and Annex B (nominal holding gains/losses, no capital transfers, no new lending/borrowing) are contrasted.