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 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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Monetary Policy and Society
30 January 2014, Zurich, Switzerland Lectures,
Monetary | Tags:
Financial Stability,
Inequality CEP Lecture by William White. Dr White is the Chairman of the Economic and Development Review Committee of the OECD, and the former Chief Economist of the Bank for International Settlements. He is also an advisor to CEP.
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Monetary Policy 2020 – Fundamentals and Scenarios
4 October 2013 Conferences,
Monetary | Tags:
Commodities,
Corporate Finance,
Energy,
Inequality,
Resource Security Conference on the long-term effects of monetary policy with Peter Bernholz, Dirk Niepelt, Pierre Monnin, Frank Somogyi, Martin Neff, Christoph Schaltegger, Katharina Serafimova, Yves Schneider, Marc Zahner, Rudolf Minsch, Rudolf Walser, Bernhard Herz, Katrin Assenmacher, and Beat Gygi.
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