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We study how income inequality affects monetary policy through the inequality-household debt channel. We design a … rate and decreasing bankruptcies during the household's debt boom phase. When inequality meets financial liberalization, a … that inequality may constrain the central bank, even when it is not explicitly targeted. …
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We explore the long-run relationship between income risk, inequality, and the macroeconomy in an overlapping … they require for bearing risk, leading to higher measured income and wealth inequality, a lower risk-free real interest … rate, and higher risk premiums. These findings suggest that the factors behind the observed rise in inequality over the …
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The COVID-19 Financial Crisis seems unprecedented, but this is largely because it combines attributes of multiple historical events, several of which occurred more than one hundred years ago. The easiest way to understand the fundamental dynamics of the crisis is to isolate the distinct phases...
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Purpose: The aim of this study is to examine the effects of the 2008 financial crisis on the labor share in Turkey, by conducting a comparative analysis of various labor share measures using both micro survey and aggregate data. Design/Methodology/Approach: By adopting aggregate data- based...
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Purpose: The aim of this study is to examine the effects of the 2008 financial crisis on the labor share in Turkey, by conducting a comparative analysis of various labor share measures using both micro survey and aggregate data. Design/Methodology/Approach: By adopting aggregate data- based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011709600
rise in the unemployment rate, by about 3 percentage points, and income inequality during the pandemic. Our results show …
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The prominent role of monetary policy in the U.S. interwar depression has been conventional wisdom since Friedman and Schwartz [1963]. This paper presents evidence on both the surprise and the systematic components of monetary policy between 1929 and 1933. Doubts surrounding GDP estimates for...
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I estimate the comparative causal effects of monetary policy \leaning against the wind" (LAW) and macroprudential policy on bank-level lending and leverage by drawing on a single natural experiment. In 1920, when U.S. monetary policy was still decentralized, four Federal Reserve Banks...
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I estimate the comparative causal effects of monetary policy "leaning against the wind" (LAW) and macroprudential policy on bank-level lending and leverage by drawing on a single natural experiment. In 1920, when U.S. monetary policy was still decentralized, four Federal Reserve Banks...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012318753
In this paper we examine the possible distributional impacts of new trade barriers associated with the new Trade and Cooperation Agreement governing relations between the UK and EU after Brexit. We use a model of labour demand that incorporates input-output links across industries, and that...
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