The effect of monetary policy on inflation heterogeneity along the income distribution

Miguel Ampudia, Michael Ehrmann and Georg Strasser

No 1124, BIS Working Papers from Bank for International Settlements

Abstract: This paper studies the effect of monetary policy on inflation along the income distribution in several euro area countries. It shows that monetary policy has differential effects and identifies two channels which point in opposite directions. On the one hand, different consumption shares imply that inflation by high-income households responds less to monetary policy. On the other hand, the paper provides novel evidence that there are substantial differences in shopping behaviour and its reaction to monetary policy, which imply that inflation by high-income households responds more to monetary policy.

Keywords: inflation; distributional effects; monetary policy; shopping behaviour; substitution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D30 E31 E52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023-09
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