Stock Market Participation, Inequality, and Monetary Policy

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Melcangi, Davide; Sterk, Vincent
• 署名单位: Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve Bank - New York; University of London; University College London
• 刊物名称: REVIEW OF ECONOMIC STUDIES
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0034-6527
• DOI: 10.1093/restud/rdae068
• 发表日期: 2025
• 页码: 2656-2690
• 关键词: shocks; redistribution; Heterogeneity; transmission; income

摘要

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.