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The Redistributive Effects of Monetary Policy Across Generations

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  • Olga Bondarenko

    (National Bank of Ukraine)

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The paper revises the redistributive channels of monetary policy transmission and their impact on income and wealth distributions in a New-Keynesian Overlapping Generations (OLG) model. The model mimics total asset holdings and earnings processes of several types of households across generations, based on their attitude to saving and income group. In this environment, expansionary monetary shocks stimulate capital and debt accumulation to a larger extent for middle-aged individuals, contributing to intergenerational inequality. Heterogeneity of labor income augments this effect, benefitting richer and more productive workers.

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  • Olga Bondarenko, 2018. "The Redistributive Effects of Monetary Policy Across Generations," Visnyk of the National Bank of Ukraine, National Bank of Ukraine, issue 244, pages 44-60.
    • Handle: RePEc:ukb:journl:y:2018:i:244:p:44-60
    DOI: 10.26531/vnbu2018.244.03
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    • D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
    • E12 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General Aggregative Models - - - Keynes; Keynesian; Post-Keynesian; Modern Monetary Theory
    • E21 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Consumption; Saving; Wealth
    • E52 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Monetary Policy

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