This paper analyses the distributional impact of high consumer inflation in the euro area and government measures to compensate households in 2022. The study uses the tax-benefit microsimulation model for the European Union (EUROMOD) with microdata as the input - EU statistics on income and...

This paper analyzes the effectiveness of delegation in solving the time inconsistency problem of monetary policy using a microfounded general equilibrium model where delegation and reappointment are explicitly included into the government's strategy. The method of Chari and Kehoe [1990....

Financial intermediation and bank spreads are important elements in the analysis of business cycle transmission and monetary policy. We present a simple framework that introduces lending relationships, a relevant feature of financial intermediation that has been so far neglected in the monetary...

During the 15 years prior to the global financial crisis the volume of securitized assets transacted in the US grew substantially, reflecting a change in the nature of the financial intermediation process. Together with increased securitization of assets, financial entities, who participate more...

The Banco de España uses various microeconomic models, mostly of an empirical nature, to support its decision-making in relation to the analysis of economic and financial risks and economic policy advice. These models, which complement those of a macroeconomic nature, seeks to identify the...

El Banco de España utiliza distintos modelos de carácter microeconómico, mayoritariamente de naturaleza empírica, para sustentar su toma de decisiones en relación con el análisis de los riesgos económicos y financieros y del asesoramiento de la política económica. Esta familia de...

We document systematic and significant time variation in US lifecycle non-durable consumption profiles. Consumption profiles have consistently become flatter: differences in consumption across generations have decreased. Pooling data across different periods to identify lifecycle profiles masks...

La inflación tiene efectos distributivos. Aprovechando los datos sobre el gasto de consumo de bienes en los hogares proporcionados por la Encuesta de Presupuestos Familiares de España, estimamos la inflación específica de los hogares de 2006 a 2021 en España y analizamos cómo varía según...

La prominencia de las políticas de mitigación de emisiones exige una comprensión de su impacto distributivo potencial. Para evaluar la heterogeneidad distributiva, cuantificamos y analizamos la intensidad de emisión del consumo, definida como las emisiones de carbono por unidad de consumo,...

"This document analyses the level of inequality in Spain and how it evolved over the course of the past crisis and the early stages of the current recovery. To this end, it first introduces the various dimensions of wage, income, consumption and wealth inequality, and analyses how they have...