Rationale The share of non-marketable assets (mainly bank loans) pledged as collateral in the Eurosystem’s monetary policy credit operations has increased in recent years. The Banco de España’s corporate credit assessment system (ICAS BE) has contributed significantly to this development...

Inequality is a challenging issue for all developing coun-tries across the globe. Evaluating the role of monetary policy in miti-gating inequality is imperative for researchers and policy makers.The central objective of the present study is to empirically evaluatethe impact of monetary policy on...

This paper illustrates a case where an increase of the in-terest rates improves the economic activity and reduces incomeinequality. This theoretical exercise deals with a simple model ofdisequilibrium with accountant identities of budget constraints. Inaddition, and following previous models,...

Elevated inflation can threaten the credibility of central banks and increase the risk that inflation expectations do not remain anchored. Wage-price spirals might develop in such an environment, and high inflation could become entrenched. We quantitively assess the risks of a wage-price spiral...

In the United States, 30% of households are coholders who simultaneously borrow on credit cards and hold liquid assets. This generates a rich distribution of gross wealth positions that underpins the distribution of net wealth often used to calibrate macroeconomic models. We show that, beyond...

El canal de transmisión de la política monetaria en el modelo neo keynesiano (NK) se basa en la suposición contrafactual de expectativas racionales e información completa (FIRE, por sus siglas en inglés), especialmente en la dimensión de equilibrio general (EG). El presente documento...

With this paper, our objective is to empirically study public debt sustainability by estimating a fiscal reaction function where the primary balance relative to GDP is assumed to be a function of the public debt to GDP ratio of the previous year and of other macroeconomic variables. In...

Elevated inflation can threaten the credibility of central banks and increase the risk that inflation expectations do not remain anchored. Wage-price spirals might develop in such an environment, and high inflation could become entrenched. We quantitively assess the risks of a wage-price spiral...