Andersen and Sánchez Serrano (2024) define a methodology for building a map of the euro area financial system using data from the quarterly sectoral accounts of the euro area (complemented with data from other sources). This map can be useful for macroprudential authorities in regularly...

Divergent trends in income and consumption inequality - with the first increasing substantially more than the latter - are an established, stylized fact for the US economy in the last decades. The same time period also experienced a steady increase in household debt, plausibly not independent...