Quantitative easing and median income: a state-level analysis

Edmond Berisha, John Meszaros and Zaman Zamanian

Applied Economics, 2019, vol. 51, issue 42, 4564-4575

Abstract: Due to the Great Recession, the Federal Reserve engaged in unconventional monetary policy (QE) to fight the effects of the economic downturn. Literature asserts that QE did have impacts on economic growth and helped alleviate the effects of the recession. Recently, critics have asserted that the benefits of QE may not have been equally distributed across households. In this paper, we build a state-level dataset to investigate the dynamics of QE measures and median income across the U.S states. The findings indicate that, for the period 2008 to 2014, there is statistical evidence that increases in the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet correspond with higher nominal median income. However, once we adjust for inflation, the results become statistically insignificant and the impact of QE on median income becomes almost zero.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2018.1564118

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