1.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00331800

Autore

HECKSCHER, Eli F.

Titolo

Der Merkantilismus / Eli F. Heckscher

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Jena, : Verlag von Gustav Fischer, 1932

Descrizione fisica

2 v. ; xxi, 820 p. ; 26 cm

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910961227503321

Autore

Silvia John

Titolo

Innocent Bystanders? Monetary Policy and Inequality in the U.S. / / John Silvia, Lorenz Kueng, Olivier Coibion, Yuriy Gorodnichenko

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2012

ISBN

9781475595000

147559500X

9781475563511

1475563515

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (58 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

CoibionOlivier

GorodnichenkoYuriy

KuengLorenz

Disciplina

330.9

Soggetti

Monetary policy - United States

Income - United States

Aggregate Factor Income Distribution

Consumption

Economics

Income distribution

Income economics

Income inequality

Income

Labor

Labour

Macroeconomics

Macroeconomics: Consumption



National accounts

Saving

Wages

Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: General

Wealth

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Abstract; Contents; I. Introduction; II. Measuring Inequality; 2.1 The Consumer Expenditure Survey; 2.2 Measures of Inequality; 2.3 Unconditional Properties of Inequality Measures; III. Effects of Monetary Policy Shocks on Inequality; 3.1 The Identification of Monetary Policy Shocks; 3.2 The Effects of Monetary Policy Shocks on Inequality; 3.3 Why Does Inequality Increase After Contractionary Monetary Policy Shocks?; 3.4 Distributional Mobility after Monetary Policy Shocks; 3.5 How Important Is The Contribution of Monetary Policy Shocks to Inequality?

IV. Wealth Redistribution in Response to Monetary Policy ShocksV. Permanent Changes in Monetary Policy; VI. Conclusion; Figures; 1. Inequality in Total Income, Labor Earnings, Expenditures and Consumption in the U.S.; 2. Monetary Policy Shocks; 3. Effects of Monetary Policy Shocks on Macroeconomic Variables; 4. Response of Economic Inequality to a Contractionary Monetary Policy Shock; 5. Distributional Effects of Contractionary Monetary Policy Shock by Percentiles; 6. Time-Varying Probabilities of Transitioning Between Consumption Quintiles

7. Contribution of Monetary Policy Shocks to Forecast Error Variance of Inequality8. The Contribution of Monetary Policy Shocks to Historical Variation in U.S. Inequality; 9. Income and Consumption Responses of High and Low Net-Worth Households; 10. Historical Estimates of the Federal Reserve's Target Rate of Inflation; 11. Response of Inequality to Permanent Increases in the Inflation Target; Tables; 1. Correlations and Volatilitiese of Inequality Measures; 2. Correlations of Inequality Measures with Macroeconomic Variables; 3. Decomposition of Income by Quintile

4. Decomposition of Expenditures and Consumption by QuintileAppendix Figures; 1. Robustness of Baseline Inequality Results to Sample and Lags; 2: Robustness of Baseline Inequality Results to Econometric Approach; 3. Robustness of Baseline Inequality Results to Controlling for Household Size, Observables, and Hours; 4. Robustness of Earnings Responses by Percentiles; 5. Contribution of Monetary Policy Shocks to Variance of Macroeconomic Variables; 6. Distributional Effects by Percentile of Inflation Target Increases

Sommario/riassunto

We study the effects and historical contribution of monetary policy shocks to consumption and income inequality in the United States since 1980. Contractionary monetary policy actions systematically increase inequality in labor earnings, total income, consumption and total expenditures. Furthermore, monetary shocks can account for a significant component of the historical cyclical variation in income and



consumption inequality. Using detailed micro-level data on income and consumption, we document the different channels via which monetary policy shocks affect inequality, as well as how these channels depend on the nature of the change in monetary policy.