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A HANK² Model of Monetary Unions

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  • Christian Bayer
  • Alexander Kriwoluzky
  • Gernot J. Müller
  • Fabian Seyrich

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How does a monetary union alter the impact of business cycle shocks at the household level? We develop a Heterogeneous Agent New Keynesian model of two countries (HANK2) and show in closed form that a monetary union shifts the adjustment to a shock horizontally—across countries—within the brackets of the union-wide wealth distribution rather than vertically—that is, across the brackets of the union-wide wealth distribution. Calibrating the model to the euro area reveals that a monetary union alters the impact of shocks most strongly in the tails of the wealth distribution but leaves the middle class almost unaffected.

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  • Christian Bayer & Alexander Kriwoluzky & Gernot J. Müller & Fabian Seyrich, 2023. "A HANK² Model of Monetary Unions," CRC TR 224 Discussion Paper Series crctr224_2023_449, University of Bonn and University of Mannheim, Germany.
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    Keywords

    HANK2; OCA theory; Two-country model; monetary union; spillovers; monetary policy; heterogeneity; inequality; households;
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    JEL classification:

    • F45 - International Economics - - Macroeconomic Aspects of International Trade and Finance - - - Macroeconomic Issues of Monetary Unions
    • E52 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Monetary Policy
    • D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution

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