Melcangi, Davide;
Sterk, Vincent;
(2024)
Stock Market Participation, Inequality, and Monetary Policy.
The Review of Economic Studies
10.1093/restud/rdae068.
(In press).
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Abstract
Recent literature has shown that the fraction of liquidity-constrained households in the population critically determines the mix of transmission channels of monetary policy. In this article, we bring a different but important dimension of heterogeneity to the forefront: stock market participation. We show that the stock market participation rate not only shapes the mix of policy channels but also heavily affects the aggregate responses. This happens as direct rebalancing effects and indirect equilibrium effects into investment are both increasing in the number of stock market participants, reinforcing each other. We show this in a quantitative New Keynesian model designed to account for the population share of stock market participants, their position in the income and wealth distribution, and their saving rates. The model implies that, as stock market participation has increased since the 1980s, the power of monetary policy on the real economy has strengthened considerably.
Type: | Article |
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Title: | Stock Market Participation, Inequality, and Monetary Policy |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: | 10.1093/restud/rdae068 |
Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdae068 |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | © The Author(s) 2024. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Review of Economic Studies Limited. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Economics |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10187942 |
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