composition of their income and on the components of their wealth. We first review the existing evidence on how monetary policy … affects income and wealth inequality. We then illustrate quantitatively how various channels of transmission - net interest … rate exposure, intertemporal substitution and indirect income channels - affect individual euro area households. We find …

We estimate the long- and short-run relationship between top income and wealth shares for France and the US since 1913 … to a reduction of the long-run gap between wealth and income inequality compared to the period before. In the short …-run, income inequality drives wealth inequality, while the converse link is weaker and slower. Using counterfactual simulations …