Monetary Policy over the Lifecycle

R. Anton Braun and Daisuke Ikeda
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R. Anton Braun: Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta (E-mail: r.anton.braun@gmail.com)

No 21-E-09, IMES Discussion Paper Series from Institute for Monetary and Economic Studies, Bank of Japan

Abstract: A tighter monetary policy is generally associated with higher real interest rates on deposits and loans, weaker performance of equities and real estate, and slower growth in employment and wages. How does a household's exposure to monetary policy vary with its age? The size and composition of both household income and asset portfolios exhibit large variation over the lifecycle in Japanese data. We formulate an overlapping generations model that reproduces these observations and use it to analyze how household responses to monetary policy shocks vary over the lifecycle. Both the signs and the magnitudes of the responses of a household's net worth, disposable income and consumption depend on its age.

Keywords: Monetary policy; Lifecycle; Portfolio choice; Nominal government debt (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D15 E52 E62 G51 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021-08
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