We argue that a 2-agent version of the standard New Keynesian model—where a “worker” receives only labor income and a “capitalist” only profit income— offers insights about how income inequality affects the monetary transmission mechanism. Under rigid prices, monetary policy affects...

Atkinson et al. (2018) propose a measure of the glass ceiling exploiting thattop incomes are approximately Pareto distributed. We clarify how this glass-ceilingcoefficient describes the increasing scarcity of women further up in the income dis-tribution and show how it relates to the top-income...

In modern macroeconomic models job openings are a key component. Thus, when taking these models to the data we need an empirical counterpart to the theoretical concept of job openings. To achieve this, the literature relies on job vacancies measured either in survey or register data. Insofar as...

How did expectations of the outcome of the United Kingdom's (UK) referendum on European Union (EU) membership in 2016 affect prices in financial markets? We study this using high frequency data from betting and financial markets. We find that a one percentage point increase in the probability of...

Banking credit to the private sector in Latin America has on average increased by 7 percent of GDP from primo 2004 to ultimo 2011, with real credit in some countries growing by up to 20 percent per year. This paper documents and analyzes the patterns of credit growth in 18 countries in Latin...