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Per Krusell

Professor and Director · IIES, Stockholm University

Professor and director of the Institute for International Economic Studies (IIES) at Stockholm University, working on macroeconomics broadly: growth, business cycles, inequality, and the climate-economy interaction. Was President of the European Economic Association in 2020.

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Published Classic Journal of Political Economy Published Oct 1998
Income and Wealth Heterogeneity in the Macroeconomy

Per Krusell · Anthony A. Smith, Jr.

In a calibrated stochastic growth model where a continuum of households face partially uninsurable employment risk and can self-insure only by holding aggregate capital, the macroeconomic aggregates …

Published Classic Review of Economic Studies Online 23 Mar 2019 Published Jan 2020
The New Keynesian Transmission Mechanism: A Heterogeneous-Agent Perspective

Tobias Broer · Niels-Jakob H. Hansen · Per Krusell · Erik Öberg

This paper shows that the standard New Keynesian monetary transmission mechanism -- in which a rate cut raises output and employment -- breaks down in the simplest possible heterogeneous-agent version …