Estimating the impact of monetary policy on income inequality in China

José Sánchez-Fung

Macroeconomics and Finance in Emerging Market Economies, 2017, vol. 10, issue 3, 260-267

Abstract: The article estimates the impact of monetary policy on income inequality in China. The empirical time series analysis finds that a battery of monetary indicators and the change in the unemployment rate lead to increases in the Gini coefficient. But only unemployment is statistically significant. The lack of significance of the monetary indicators is robust to running different econometric models using nominal output as an alternative to unemployment. Unemployment’s impact on income inequality is robust to considering a fiscal policy proxy alongside inflation in the benchmark equation.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1080/17520843.2016.1254665

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