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Distributional Effects of Monetary Policies in a New Neoclassical Model with Progressive Income Taxation

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  • Burkhard Heer; Alfred Maussner

    (School of Economics and Management Free University of Bolzano-Bozen)

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In our dynamic optimizing sticky price model, agents are heterogenous with regard to their assets and their income. Unanticipated inflation redistributes income and wealth. In order to model the wealth distribution, we study a 60-period OLG model with aggregate uncertainty. A positive technology shock increases the concentration of wealth as measured by the Gini coefficient considerably. In particular, a one percent increase of the technology level results in a one percent increase of the Gini coefficient. An unexpected expansionary monetary policy is found to reduce the inequality of the wealth distribution. In addition, we find that the business cycle dynamics in the OLG model in response to both a technology shock and a monetary shock are different from those in the corresponding representative-agent model

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  • Burkhard Heer; Alfred Maussner, 2005. "Distributional Effects of Monetary Policies in a New Neoclassical Model with Progressive Income Taxation," Computing in Economics and Finance 2005 12, Society for Computational Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:sce:scecf5:12
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    5. Yann Algan & Xavier Ragot, 2010. "Monetary policy with Heterogeneous Agents and Borrowing Constraints," Review of Economic Dynamics, Elsevier for the Society for Economic Dynamics, vol. 13(2), pages 295-316, April.
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    Keywords

    Distribution Effects; Unanticipated Inflation; Heterogeneous Agents;
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    JEL classification:

    • E31 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Price Level; Inflation; Deflation
    • E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles
    • E52 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Monetary Policy

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