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Forthcoming American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
Strapped for Cash: The Role of Financial Constraints for Innovating Firms, Misallocation and Aggregate Productivity Growth

Esther Ann Bøler · Andreas Moxnes · Karen Helene Ulltveit-Moe

Firms that invest heavily in intangible assets — patents, R&D, software — face a structural financing disadvantage: intangibles offer limited collateral value to banks, so intangible-intensive firms …

Published American Economic Review Published Aug 2026
Uncertainty and Change: Survey Evidence of Firms' Subjective Beliefs

Rüdiger Bachmann · Kai Carstensen · Stefan Lautenbacher · Manuel Menkhoff · Martin Schneider

A large literature shows that firms perceiving more uncertainty make more cautious intertemporal decisions (investment, hiring, price setting), but it is far less clear what makes firms uncertain in …

Forthcoming American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics
What Drives the Recent Surge in Inflation? The Historical Decomposition Roller Coaster

Drago Bergholt · Fabio Canova · Francesco Furlanetto · Nicolò Maffei-Faccioli · Pål Ulvedal

The paper addresses what drove the post-COVID inflation surge in the United States and internationally. Before answering the substantive question, the authors identify and diagnose a methodological …

Published Journal of Money, Credit and Banking Online 11 Jul 2025 Published Aug 2026
Banks of a Feather: The Informational Advantage of Being Alike

Peter Bednarek · Valeriya Dinger · Alison Schultz · Natalja von Westernhagen

Can banks effectively monitor their peers under asymmetric information? Effective peer monitoring matters for functioning interbank markets and, by implication, financial markets and the transmission …

Online First Quarterly Journal of Economics Online 18 Jun 2026
Beliefs About the Economy are Excessively Sensitive to Household-Level Shocks: Evidence from Linked Survey and Administrative Data

Dmitry Taubinsky · Luigi Butera · Matteo Saccarola · Chen Lian

Linking the monthly Danish Consumer Expectations Survey to the Danish administrative registry, this paper shows that households' inflation forecasts move strongly and negatively with their own recent …

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 Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences Online 13 Nov 2014 Published Nov 2014
Partial differential equation models in macroeconomics

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 …

Published Classic Quantitative Economics Online 1 Nov 2020 Published Nov 2020
Solving discrete time heterogeneous agent models with aggregate risk and many idiosyncratic states by perturbation

Christian Bayer · Ralph Luetticke

A solution method for discrete-time heterogeneous-agent models with aggregate risk that extends Reiter's perturbation approach by compressing the state space after the no-aggregate-risk stationary …

Online First Journal of Money, Credit and Banking Online 12 Sep 2026
The Power of Open-Mouth Policies

Vadym Lepetyuk · Lilia Maliar · Serguei Maliar · John B. Taylor

When a central bank announces a policy it will not implement for some time, households and firms respond straight away. This paper measures how much of a policy's effect arrives in that anticipation …