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systemically important nancial institutions have lower levels of income in-
equality. However, in this case too, results cannot be interpreted as proving
causality. More research is needed on how macroprudential policies aect
the distribution of income and wealth.
– In turn, income and wealth distributions may aect the eectiveness of
macroprudential policies. Punzi and Rabitsch (2018) show that policies that
tighten lending more for highly leveraged households than for others are
more welfare- improving than policies that aect everyone equally. How-
ever, the highest- leveraged households are often the poorest and restricting
their access to home ownership could increase inequality (Monnin, 2018) ...