Income and wealth distribution in macroeconomics: A continuous-time approach

Y Achdou, J Han, JM Lasry, PL Lions… - The review of economic …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Abstract We recast the Aiyagari–Bewley–Huggett model of income and wealth distribution in
continuous time. This workhorse model—as well as heterogeneous agent models more …

Managing an energy shock: Fiscal and monetary policy

A Auclert, H Monnery, M Rognlie, L Straub - 2023 - nber.org
This paper studies the macroeconomic effects of energy price shocks in energy-importing
economies using a heterogeneous-agent New Keynesian model. When MPCs are …

A sufficient statistics approach for macro policy

R Barnichon, G Mesters - American Economic Review, 2023 - aeaweb.org
The evaluation of macroeconomic policy decisions has traditionally relied on the formulation
of a specific economic model. In this work, we show that two statistics are sufficient to detect …

Financial frictions and the wealth distribution

J Fernández‐Villaverde, S Hurtado, G Nuno - Econometrica, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We postulate a continuous‐time heterogeneous agent model with a financial sector and
households to study the nonlinear linkages between aggregate and financial variables. In …

[PDF][PDF] Optimal policy rules in hank

A McKay, C Wolf - 2022 - economics.mit.edu
We characterize optimal policy rules in business-cycle models with nominal rigidities and
heterogeneous households. The derived rules are expressed in terms of the causal effects …

Shocks, frictions, and inequality in US business cycles

C Bayer, B Born, R Luetticke - American Economic Review, 2024 - pubs.aeaweb.org
We show how a heterogeneous agent New Keynesian (HANK) model with incomplete
markets and portfolio choice can be estimated in state space using a Bayesian approach. To …

New Pricing Models, Same Old Phillips Curves?

A Auclert, R Rigato, M Rognlie… - The Quarterly Journal of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
We show that in a broad class of menu cost models, the first-order dynamics of aggregate
inflation in response to arbitrary shocks to aggregate costs are nearly the same as in Calvo …

Unemployment insurance in macroeconomic stabilization

R Kekre - Review of Economic Studies, 2023 - academic.oup.com
I study unemployment insurance (UI) in general equilibrium with incomplete markets, search
frictions, and nominal rigidities. An increase in generosity raises the aggregate demand for …

The macroeconomic consequences of exchange rate depreciations

M Fukui, E Nakamura, J Steinsson - 2023 - nber.org
We study the consequences of “regime-induced” exchange rate depreciations by comparing
outcomes for peggers versus floaters to the US dollar in response to a dollar depreciation …

Lumpy durable consumption demand and the limited ammunition of monetary policy

A McKay, JF Wieland - Econometrica, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The prevailing neo‐Wicksellian view holds that the central bank's objective is to track the
natural rate of interest (r*), which itself is largely exogenous to monetary policy. We …