Research

The research of Mark Sheppard focuses primarily on welfare policy, public finance, income variance, and wealth inequality.

The field of income inequality has increased drastically, however the trends in sub-categories of income are still underestimated. Using panel data, Sheppard seeks to unpack the similarities between traditional wage income volatility and other categories of income.
Wealth shocks are not transmitted equally across communities, there are measurable disparities in how recessions affect asset values. Therefore necessitating distributional analysis in wealth shocks.
Unconventional monetary policy can take many forms, unifying the effects is difficult. However, some unconventional monetary policies have more distributional impacts than others.