Arbeitspapier

Inequality, the risk of secular stagnation and the increase in household debt

I investigate the effect of rising income inequality on the natural rate of interest in an economy with "rich" households with preferences over wealth and "non-rich" households, a housing market and credit market frictions. Simulating the increase in interpersonal and functional income inequality over the 1981-2016 period replicates the downward trend in the natural rate of interest estimated by Laubach and Williams (2016), most of the increase in the debt-to-income ratio of the bottom 90 % of households and the upward trend in house prices observed during this period.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: NBB Working Paper ; No. 375

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Aggregate Factor Income Distribution
Monetary Policy
Interest Rates: Determination, Term Structure, and Effects
Household Saving; Personal Finance
Thema
Income inequality
natural rate of interest
secular stagnation

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Rannenberg, Ansgar
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
National Bank of Belgium
(wo)
Brussels
(wann)
2019

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Rannenberg, Ansgar
  • National Bank of Belgium

Entstanden

  • 2019

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