Artikel

Precautionary saving and aggregate demand

We construct, and then estimate by maximum likelihood, a tractable dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model with incomplete insurance and heterogenous agents. The key feature of our framework is that cross-sectional heterogeneity remains finite dimensional. The solution to the model thus admits a state- space representation that can be used to recover the distribution of the model's parameters. Household heterogeneity expands the set of observables to cross- sectional moments available at the business-cycle frequency (in addition to theusual macro and monetary time series). Incomplete insurance gives rise to a precautionary motive for holding wealth that propagates aggregate shocks via (i) a stabilizing aggregate supply effect, working through the supply of capital, and (ii) a destabilizing aggregate demand effect coming from the feedback loop between unemployment risk and precautionary saving. Using the estimated model to measure the contribution of precautionary savings to the propagation of recent recessions, we find strong aggregate demand effects during the Great Recession and, to a lesser extent, during the 1990-1991 recession. In contrast, the supply effect at least offsets the demand effect during the 2001 recession.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Journal: Quantitative Economics ; ISSN: 1759-7331 ; Volume: 8 ; Year: 2017 ; Issue: 2 ; Pages: 435-478 ; New Haven, CT: The Econometric Society

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models: Time-Series Models; Dynamic Quantile Regressions; Dynamic Treatment Effect Models; Diffusion Processes; State Space Models
General Aggregative Models: Keynes; Keynesian; Post-Keynesian
Macroeconomics: Consumption; Saving; Wealth
Monetary Policy
Thema
DSGE
incomplete insurance
heterogenous agents
Bayesian estimation

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Challe, Edouard
Matheron, Julien
Ragot, Xavier
Rubio-Ramírez, Juan Francisco
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
The Econometric Society
(wo)
New Haven, CT
(wann)
2017

DOI
doi:10.3982/QE714
Handle
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  • Artikel

Beteiligte

  • Challe, Edouard
  • Matheron, Julien
  • Ragot, Xavier
  • Rubio-Ramírez, Juan Francisco
  • The Econometric Society

Entstanden

  • 2017

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