Monetary Policy, Redistribution, and Risk Premia

72 Pages Posted: 17 Jan 2020 Last revised: 5 May 2022

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Rohan Kekre

University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

Moritz Lenel

Princeton University - Bendheim Center for Finance

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Date Written: May 2, 2022

Abstract

We study the transmission of monetary policy through risk premia in a heterogeneous agent New Keynesian environment. Heterogeneity in households' marginal propensity to take risk (MPR) summarizes differences in portfolio choice on the margin. An unexpected reduction in the nominal interest rate redistributes to households with high MPRs, lowering risk premia and amplifying the stimulus to the real economy. Quantitatively, this mechanism rationalizes the role of news about future excess returns in driving the stock market response to monetary policy shocks and amplifies their real effects by 1.3-1.4 times.

Keywords: monetary policy, risk premia, heterogeneous agents

JEL Classification: E44, E63, G12

Suggested Citation

Kekre, Rohan and Lenel, Moritz, Monetary Policy, Redistribution, and Risk Premia (May 2, 2022). University of Chicago, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics Working Paper No. 2020-02, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3520925 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3520925

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Moritz Lenel

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