This paper considers how monetary policy produces heterogeneous effects on euro area households, depending on the 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...

We study the pricing of EMU sovereign debt by a novel panel regression approach. This allows us to consider a comprehensive set of observable explanatory variables jointly with additional unobservable time-varying common factors. We add to the existing literature by considering the pricing...

This paper contains the first detailed empirical examination of the information content of the Bank of England Credit Conditions Survey (CCS). The CCS asks a wide selection of questions of UK lenders relating to all aspects of bank credit provision. We examine the association between the survey...

This study considers the role of the yield curve as a predictor of future interest rates, inflation rates and economic activity for New Zealand. To provide a basis for comparison, data from Australia and the US are also considered. Many studies have shown a strong empirical link between the...

The authors use microdata from the 1999 and 2005 Surveys of Financial Security to identify changes in household debt, and discuss their potential implications for monetary policy and financial stability. They document an increase in the debt-income ratio, which rose from 0.75 to 0.95, on...