Research question and motivation: A central tenet of monetary policy is that aggressively raising nominal rates more than one-for-one with inflation (the Taylor principle) nips self-fulfilling …
An analytically tractable heterogeneous-agent New Keynesian (HANK) model in which a utilitarian planner's optimal monetary policy departs from the representative-agent benchmark because interest rates …
Using an analytically tractable heterogeneous-agent New Keynesian model with CARA preferences and normally distributed idiosyncratic income risk, the paper shows that whether incomplete markets …