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Monetary Policy and the Distribution of Wealth in a OLG Economy with Heterogeneous Agents, Money and Bequests

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  • Riccarda Longaretti

    () (Department of Economics, University of Milan-Bicocca)

  • Domenico Delli Gatti

    () (ITEMQ, Catholic University of Milan)

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We develop an OLG model in which the distribution of wealth makes monetary policy non-superneutral at the individual level. In other words monetary policy may have distributional consequences. We demonstrate that in a representative agent economy, monetary policy would be superneutral both at the individual and at the aggregate level. On the contrary if agents differ from one another as far as income and wealth are concerned, there exists a mean field effect that makes money non-superneutral at the individual level.

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Paper provided by University of Milano-Bicocca, Department of Economics in its series Working Papers with number 60.

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Length: 25 pages
Date of creation: Oct 2002
Date of revision: Oct 2002
Handle: RePEc:mib:wpaper:60

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  1. Riccarda Longaretti & Domenico Delli Gatti, 2006. "The Non-Superneutrality of Money and its Distributional Effects when Agents are Heterogeneous and Capital Markets are Imperfect," Working Papers 95, University of Milano-Bicocca, Department of Economics, revised May 2006.

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