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Micro Jumps, Macro Humps: Monetary Policy and Business Cycles in an Estimated HANK Model

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  • Adrien Auclert
  • Matthew Rognlie
  • Ludwig Straub

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We estimate a Heterogeneous-Agent New Keynesian model with sticky household expectations that matches existing microeconomic evidence on marginal propensities to consume and macroeconomic evidence on the impulse response to a monetary policy shock. Our estimated model uncovers a central role for investment in the transmission mechanism of monetary policy, as high MPCs amplify the investment response in the data. This force also generates a procyclical response of consumption to investment shocks, leading our model to infer a central role for these shocks as a source of business cycles.

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  • Adrien Auclert & Matthew Rognlie & Ludwig Straub, 2020. "Micro Jumps, Macro Humps: Monetary Policy and Business Cycles in an Estimated HANK Model," CESifo Working Paper Series 8051, CESifo Group Munich.
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    1. Micro Jumps, Macro Humps: Monetary Policy and Business Cycles in an Estimated HANK Model
      by Christian Zimmermann in NEP-DGE blog on 2020-03-02 05:22:46

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    1. Christian Bayer & Benjamin Born & Ralph Luetticke, 2020. "Shocks, Frictions, and Inequality in US Business Cycles," CESifo Working Paper Series 8085, CESifo Group Munich.
    2. repec:cpr:ceprdp:14364 is not listed on IDEAS
    3. Lawrence J. Christiano & Martin S. Eichenbaum & Mathias Trabandt, 2020. "Why is Unemployment so Countercyclical?," NBER Working Papers 26723, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    4. Christian Bayer & Ralph Luetticke, 2019. "Shocks, Frictions, and Inequality in US Business Cycles," 2019 Meeting Papers 256, Society for Economic Dynamics.

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    Keywords

    HANK; estimation; investment;

    JEL classification:

    • E21 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Consumption; Saving; Wealth
    • E22 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Investment; Capital; Intangible Capital; Capacity
    • E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles
    • E43 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Money and Interest Rates - - - Interest Rates: Determination, Term Structure, and Effects
    • E52 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Monetary Policy
    • E70 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macro-Based Behavioral Economics - - - General

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