What are the effects of inflation on production?
Effects of inflation on production are:
- Inflation may or may not result in higher output.
- Below the full employment stage, inflation has a favourable effect on production.
- In general, profit is a rising function of the price level.
- An inflationary situation gives an incentive to businessmen to raise prices of their products so as to earn higher doses of profit.
- Such a favourable effect of inflation will be temporary if wages and production costs rise very rapidly.
- Inflationary situation may be associated with the fall in output, particularly if inflation is of the cost- push variety.
- There is no strict relationship between prices and output.
- An increase in aggregate demand will increase both prices and output, but a supply shock will raise prices and lower output.