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Since the 1980s inflationary pressures seem to materialize overproportionately outside of the sectors of consumer goods and services. We combine the Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices with indices for asset prices, such as stocks and real estate, as well as the costs of public goods to develop...
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composition of their income and on the components of their wealth. We first review the existing evidence on how monetary policy … affects income and wealth inequality. We then illustrate quantitatively how various channels of transmission—net interest rate … exposure, intertemporal substitution and indirect income channels—affect individual euro area households. We find that the …
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(FFR) and the deterioration of income inequality. Amid the great uncertainty over the FFR, this paper attempts to predict … where the FFR is bound to go in the near and foreseeable future with income inequality as a central determinant in the … analysis. Interest rate and income inequality are traditionally studied in isolation from each other by two different groups of …
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This paper shows how financial inequality and misbeliefs about group entitlements can increase the consensus for populist parties. Given a banking shock, traditional and populist parties propose alternative bailout policies, where short termism characterizes the populistic policy. The citizens...
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This paper examines myopic, populist policies that guarantee short-term financial protection of the people from the elite without regard for long-term fiscal or monetary distortions. Assuming that citizens are financially heterogeneous, this paper shows that inefficient outcomes can arise when...
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interest rates tends to distribute income towards higher income classes. This helps explain why consumer price inflation in …
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composition of their income and on the components of their wealth. We first review the existing evidence on how monetary policy … affects income and wealth inequality. We then illustrate quantitatively how various channels of transmission - net interest … rate exposure, intertemporal substitution and indirect income channels - affect individual euro area households. We find …
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distributive justice and that help those individuals most at risk for shrinking income …
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interest bearing assets (LAMP). We show that a combination of higher inflation and lower income taxes reduces inequality. When …
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