Effects of monetary and government spending policy on economic inequality |
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Affiliation: | Uppsala Center for Fiscal Studies, Department of Economics, Uppsala University, Box 513, SE-75120 Uppsala, Sweden |
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Abstract: | Using detailed micro-level income and expenditure data, we study the effects of monetary and government spending policy shocks on income and expenditure inequality in the US from 1990 to 2018. We find that expansionary monetary and government spending policy shocks systematically decrease income, disposable income and expenditure inequality. There is evidence of time variation on the effects and monetary policy and transfer payment shocks. Various impulse responses suggest that the impacts of the policy shocks increase during and after the Great Recession. The responses of income and expenditures of households at different percentiles suggest that expansionary monetary and government spending policy have a larger positive impact on households with low income and expenditures relative to those at the top of the distribution. We do not find evidence of the significant impact of Quantitative Easing policies on income inequality, however, expenditure inequality appear to increase due to the policies. |
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Keywords: | Inequality Government spending policy Monetary policy Factor-augmented VAR Time-varying parameter model |
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