Benjamin Moll

Yves Achdou · Jiequn Han · Jean-Michel Lasry · Pierre-Louis Lions · Benjamin Moll

This paper recasts the Aiyagari-Bewley-Huggett incomplete-markets model in continuous time, showing it reduces to a coupled system of a Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equation and a Kolmogorov Forward …

Greg Kaplan · Benjamin Moll · Giovanni L. Violante

This paper builds a two-asset Heterogeneous Agent New Keynesian (HANK) model matching the empirical joint distribution of income, liquid, and illiquid wealth, and finds that the indirect effect of an …

Yves Achdou · Francisco J. Buera · Jean-Michel Lasry · Pierre-Louis Lions · Benjamin Moll

Written explicitly to get mathematicians interested in macroeconomics, this review collects the systems of coupled nonlinear partial differential equations that arise once a macro model tracks a whole …

Peter Maxted · David Laibson · Benjamin Moll

Maxted, Laibson, and Moll study fiscal and monetary policy in a partial-equilibrium heterogeneous-agent model in which homeowners have present-biased time preferences (Instantaneous Gratification …

Yucheng Yang · Chiyuan Wang · Andreas Schaab · Benjamin Moll

By replacing the cross-sectional distribution with low-dimensional current prices as the state variable and letting agents learn equilibrium price dynamics from simulated paths -- while still …

Benjamin Moll

This essay argues that rational expectations about equilibrium prices -- which in heterogeneous-agent models means forecasting prices by forecasting the entire cross-sectional distribution, via an …

SeHyoun Ahn · Greg Kaplan · Benjamin Moll · Thomas Winberry · Christian Wolf

This paper develops a continuous-time method for solving heterogeneous-agent models with aggregate shocks by linearizing around a nonlinearly computed stationary equilibrium (extending Reiter's …