Monetary Policy and the Redistribution Channel
Adrien Auclert | 28 June 2017
Monetary,
Working Papers | Tags:
Income Inequality,
Inflation,
Interest Rates This paper evaluates the role of redistribution in the transmission mechanism of monetary policy to consumption. Three channels affect aggregate spending when winners and losers have different marginal propensities to consume: an earnings heterogeneity channel from unequal income gains, a Fisher channel from unexpected inflation,
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Why Monetary Policy Should Go Green
Alexander Barkawi | 19 May 2017
Blog,
Monetary | Tags:
Climate Change,
Collateral Frameworks,
Green Finance,
QE Monetary policy is rarely a topic in debates on green finance. It should.
The €60bn that the European Central Bank is currently injecting into financial markets on a monthly basis are a case in point. Its intervention amounts to nearly three times as much as the
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Monetary Policy, Macroprudential Regulation and Inequality
Pierre Monnin | 12 April 2017
Discussion Notes,
Monetary | Tags:
Inequality,
Interest Rates,
Macroprudential Regulation The 2008 global financial crisis profoundly changed the role of central banks in the economy. First, central banks engaged in strong expansionary monetary policy, using new unconventional tools to boost economic activity. Second, they were key to containing financial instability, which led them to implement
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Inequality Should Matter for Central Banks
Liviu Voinea and
Pierre Monnin | 16 February 2017
Blog,
Monetary | Tags:
Central Banks,
Inequality,
Quantitative Easing Central bankers have long been discreet about the links between monetary policy and inequality. They justify this reserve by the fact that their mandates do not charge them with addressing inequality and they generally argue that by providing price stability, central banks maintain the existing
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