We study the differential regional effects of monetary policy exploiting geographical heterogeneity in income across cities in the United States. We find that prices and employment in poorer cities react more to monetary policy shocks. The results for prices hold for a wide range of narrow...

This paper aims to survey the existing literature on the relationship between banking and space. Many studies have documented disparities in the regional responses to monetary policy shocks. Given the fact that monetary policy affects some regions of the country more than others, a review of the...

The rising star of Spanish economics, Carlos Rodriguez Fuentes, has produced a work of impressive clarity which analyses the effects of regional monetary policy - with particular reference to European Monetary Union