Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/202304 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
JRC Working Papers in Economics and Finance No. 2018/12
Publisher: 
Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg
Abstract: 
This paper compares the distributional effects of conventional monetary policy and quantitative easing (QE) within an estimated open-economy DSGE model of the euro area. The model includes two groups of households: (i) wealthier households, who own financial assets and are able to smooth consumption over time, and (ii) poorer households, who only receive labor and transfer income and live "hand to mouth". We use the model to compare the impact of policy shocks on constructed measures of income and wealth inequality (net disposable income, net asset position, and relative per-capita income). Except for the short term, expansionary conventional policy and QE shocks tend to mitigate income and wealth inequality between the two population groups. In light of the coarse dichotomy of households that abstracts from richer income and wealth dynamics at the individual level, the analysis emphasizes the functional distribution of income.
Subjects: 
Bayesian estimation
distributional effects
open-economy DSGE model
portfolio rebalancing
quantitative easing
JEL: 
E44
E52
E53
F41
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-92-79-93406-3
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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