Does Inflation Really Hurt the Poor More than the Rich?
Pierre Monnin | 26 May 2014
Blog,
Monetary | Tags:
Inequality,
Inflation After being neglected for decades, income and wealth inequality are back at the center of economic discussions. Recent work by the IMF, renowned economists like Joseph Stiglitz (e.g. in his book “The Price of Inequality”), as well as the lively debate generated by Thomas Piketty’s
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Inflation and Income Inequality in Developed Economies
Pierre Monnin | 15 May 2014
Monetary,
Working Papers | Tags:
Inequality,
Inflation This paper explores the empirical link between income inequality and inflation in ten OECD countries over the period 1971 to 2010. In addition to inflation, we include six control variables
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Monetary Policy and Resource Security
22-24 April, 2014 Monetary,
Workshops | Tags:
Commodities,
Energy,
Resource Security Resource security – the capacity to meet current and future demand for food, water, land, energy and minerals – has been a key concern for policymakers for a long time. As global consumption levels rise, debates on how to safeguard natural capital are moving up
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Monetary Policy and Inequality
3-4 April 2014 Monetary,
Workshops | Tags:
Inequality The Council on Economic Policies (CEP) and the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta organized a workshop on Monetary Policy and Inequality on 3-4 April 2014 at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.
Since the beginning of the 1990s, income and wealth inequality has been rising in
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What is Sustainable Monetary Policy?
17 February 2014 Monetary,
Workshops | Tags:
Alternative Currencies,
Commodities,
Financial Stability Colloquium on monetary policy, its impact on financial markets in general and commodity markets in particular, the role of deregulation in the financial crisis, and the potential of alternative currencies.
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