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This paper evaluates the distributive effect of monetary policy in the case of the UK. The income inequality measure represents the whole income distribution. Different income inequality data sources and sample periods are considered. The monetary policy shock is identified by using recursive,...
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This paper studies the effects of quantitative easing on income and wealth of individual euro area households. The aggregate effects of quantitative easing are estimated in a multi-country VAR model of the four largest euro area countries, in which key variables affecting household income and...
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How much does inequality matter for the business cycle and vice versa? Using a Bayesian likelihood approach, we estimate a heterogeneous-agent New-Keynesian (HANK) model with incomplete markets and portfolio choice between liquid and illiquid assets. The model enlarges the set of shocks and...
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We use detailed micro information at household level from the Wealth and Assets Survey to construct measures of wealth inequality from 2005 to 2016 at the monthly frequency. We investigate the dynamic relationship between monetary policy and the evolution of wealth inequality measures. Our...
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In this paper we investigate the effect of income inequality on the transmission of standard and unconventional monetary policy shocks to bank loan rates. We hypothesize that income inequality might encapsulate important characteristics of credit market demand. We use an interacted panel error...
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Monetary policy has the potential to affect income and wealth inequality in the short run. This has always been true, but given the unprecedented period of accommodative policy in a number of advanced economies including the UK over the past decade, it has become more important to understand the...
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One hallmark of U.S. monetary policy since the early 1980s has been moderation in inflation (at least, until recently …). How has this affected household well-being? The paper first develops a new model to address this issue. The inflation tax … long as inflation is positive). The inflation gain on household wealth is the revaluation resulting from asset price …
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