Macroeconomics: Heterogeneity
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Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis Research Department Staff Report 420 Quantitative Macroeconomics with Heterogeneous Households *
Macroeconomics is evolving from the study of aggregate dynamics to the study of the dynamics of the entire equilibrium distribution of allocations across individual economic actors. This article reviews the quantitative macroeconomic literature that focuses on household heterogeneity, with a special emphasis on the “standard” incomplete markets model. We organize the vast literature according t...
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