This paper studies the transmission of monetary policy to household consumption through wealth effects in a small open economy. As a natural experiment, we exploit the 2015 Swiss franc shock, triggered by the Swiss National Bank's unexpected removal of the euro exchange rate floor. Using...

What happens across generations to random wealth shocks? Do they endure and even magnify, or do they dissipate? By implication, how much of modern wealth is attributable to events before 1900? This paper uses random shocks to family size in England before 1880, that created wealth shocks for the...

The purpose of this essay is to point out two errors which exist in Patinkin's Money, Interest and Prices. The aim is to show that the rehabilitation of the neoclassical theory of money and interest is not convincing. I shall try to show that Patinkin's refined version of the quantity theory...

We investigate the wealth effect of asset securitization in real estate and infrastructure sectors on issuing firms, based on data from 859 listed companies in China, the world's largest developing country. The data come from a manual match to securitization issuance records, spanning from 2014...