Monetary policy and inequality
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Author(s)
Andersen, Asger
Jørgensen, Mia
Johannesen, Niels
Peydro, Jose-Luis
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
We analyze the distributional effects of monetary policy on income, wealth, and consumption. We use administrative household-level data covering the entire population in Denmark over the period 1987 to 2014 and exploit a long-standing currency peg as a source of exogenous variation in monetary policy. We find that gains from softer monetary policy in terms of income, wealth, and consumption are monotonically increasing in ex ante income. The distributional effects reflect systematic differences in exposure to the various channels of monetary policy, especially nonlabor channels (e.g., leverage and risky assets). Our estimates imply that softer monetary policy increases income inequality.
Date Issued
2023-10-01
Date Acceptance
2022-06-20
Citation
The Journal of Finance, 2023, 78 (5), pp.2945-2989
ISSN
0022-1082
Publisher
Wiley
Start Page
2945
End Page
2989
Journal / Book Title
The Journal of Finance
Volume
78
Issue
5
Copyright Statement
© 2023 The Authors. The Journal of Finance published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of American Finance Association.
This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2023-07-15