Arbeitspapier

Monetary policy with heterogeneous households and financial frictions

This paper presents and estimates a sticky-price model with heterogenous households and financial frictions. Frictions in state-contingent asset markets lead to imperfect risksharing among households with idiosyncratic labor incomes. I study the impacts of the introduced financial frictions on optimal monetary policy by documenting implications for the central bank's objective function, the equation that characterizes inflation-output gap trade-offers, targeting rules, interest rate rules, and welfare of the economy. Employing the estimated model, the paper argues that the central bank should place a stronger emphasis on stabilizing inflation than it has, and failing to do so can generate nontrivial welfare costs.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Working Paper ; No. 2010-02

Classification
Wirtschaft
Subject
Geldpolitik
Preisrigidität
Finanzmarkt
Unvollkommener Markt
New-Keynesian Phillips Curve
Theorie

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Lee, Jae Won
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Rutgers University, Department of Economics
(where)
New Brunswick, NJ
(when)
2010

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  • Arbeitspapier

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  • Lee, Jae Won
  • Rutgers University, Department of Economics

Time of origin

  • 2010

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