IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/tin/wpaper/20240071.html

Corporate Legacy Debt, Inflation, and the Efficacy of Monetary Policy

Author

Listed:
  • Charles A.E. Goodhart

    (London School of Economics)

  • M. Udara Peiris

    (Oberlin College)

  • Dimitrios P. Tsomocos

    (University of Oxford)

  • Xuan Wang

    (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

Abstract

We posit that corporate legacy debt limits monetary policy’s effect on inflation because households are heterogeneous: some hold that debt and supply labor to firms, while others own corporate equity. When policy is contractionary, the debt creates an income effect for the households, which dampens the decline in aggregate demand and flattens the aggregate supply curve. This weakens the disinflationary effect of policy and reduces output, worsening the inflation-output trade-off. We provide empirical evidence consistent with the model’s predictions.

Suggested Citation

  • Charles A.E. Goodhart & M. Udara Peiris & Dimitrios P. Tsomocos & Xuan Wang, 2024. "Corporate Legacy Debt, Inflation, and the Efficacy of Monetary Policy," Tinbergen Institute Discussion Papers 24-071/VI, Tinbergen Institute, revised 22 May 2025.
    • Handle: RePEc:tin:wpaper:20240071
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://papers.tinbergen.nl/24071.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Other versions of this item:

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. is not listed on IDEAS
    2. Goodhart, Charles A.E. & Tsomocos, Dimitrios P. & Wang, Xuan, 2023. "Bank credit, inflation, and default risks over an infinite horizon," Journal of Financial Stability, Elsevier, vol. 67(C).

    More about this item

    Keywords

    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;

    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
    • G11 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Portfolio Choice; Investment Decisions

    NEP fields

    This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:tin:wpaper:20240071. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Tinbergen Office +31 (0)10-4088900 (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/tinbenl.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.