1. Introduction
Part 1 Income inequality and GDP Growth and inflation regime
2. Income inequality and GDP growth nexus in South Africa: Does the 4.5 percent consumer price inflation threshold and other channels play a role?
3. Does the inflation rate below 4.5 percent matter for the distributional effects of positive inflation shocks on income inequality in South Africa?
Part 2 Inequality and monetary policy
4. Does income inequality channel impact the transmission of monetary policy shocks to economic activity?
5. Do monetary policy shocks influence income inequality dynamics in South Africa?
6. Does trade openness impact the link between monetary policy and both income inequality and consumption inequality?
7. Does financial globalisation impact the link between monetary policy and income inequality?
Part 3 Role of monetary channel in transmitting shocks to income inequality
8. Does monetary policy impact the effects of shares of manufacturing employment shocks on income inequality?
9. Is there a role for the monetary policy channel in transmitting positive shocks to the services sector employment shares to income inequality?
Part 4: Consumption inequality
10. Does the consumption inequality channel impact the transmission of positive income inequality shocks to credit dynamics in South Africa? Insights before 2009Q1
11. Does price stability impact the link between income inequality and consumption inequality?
Part 5: Macroprudential policy and income inequality
12. Do positive excess capital adequacy ratio shocks influence the income inequality dynamics in South Africa?13. Does a loose loan to value ratio shock have any distributive effects via the inequality channel?
14. Is the National Credit Act a driver of growth of income inequality?
15. Can an unexpected loosening in labour market reforms reduce growth of income inequality in South Africa?
Part 6: Bank concentration and income inequality and other channels
16. Do positive bank concentration shocks impact economic growth in South Africa?
17. Does the increase in banking concentration impact income inequality in South Africa?
18. Do positive bank concentration shocks impact on employment in South Africa?
Part 7: Output-inflation trade-off and role of inflation regimes19. Is there evidence of the trade offs in output and inflation volatilities in South Africa?
20. To what extent does output-inflation trade-off exist in South Africa and is it impacted by the six percent inflation threshold?
21. Do inflation regimes affect the transmission of nominal demand shocks to the consumer price level?
22. Do positive nominal volatility shocks reduce output-inflation trade off and is there a role for inflation regimes?
Part 8: Output growth persistence and inflation
23. Does the persistence of output growth depend on the inflation regimes?
24. Do the effects of expansionary monetary policy shocks on output persistence depend on the inflation regimes?25. Output and policy ineffectiveness proposition: A perspective from single regression equations
Part 9: Uncertainty, expansionary monetary and fiscal policy multipliers
26. Does the economic policy uncertainty channel impact the influence of expansionar