Managing Inequality over Business Cycles: Optimal Policies with Heterogeneous Agents and Aggregate Shocks

François Le Grand and Xavier Ragot
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François Le Grand: EM - EMLyon Business School

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Abstract: We present a truncation theory of idiosyncratic histories for heterogeneous-agent models. This method allows us to solve for optimal Ramsey policies in such models with aggregate shocks. The method can be applied to a large variety of settings, with occasionally binding credit constraints. We use this theory to characterize the optimal level of unemployment insurance over the business cycle in a production economy. We find that the optimal policy is countercyclical.

Date: 2022-02-01
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Published in International Economic Review, 2022, 63 (1), 511-540 p

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Journal Article: MANAGING INEQUALITY OVER BUSINESS CYCLES: OPTIMAL POLICIES WITH HETEROGENEOUS AGENTS AND AGGREGATE SHOCKS (2022)
Working Paper: Managing Inequality over Business Cycles: Optimal Policies with Heterogeneous Agents and Aggregate Shocks (2022)
Working Paper: Managing Inequality over Business Cycles: Optimal Policies with Heterogeneous Agents and Aggregate Shocks (2022)
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Working Paper: Managing Inequality over Business Cycles: Optimal Policies with Heterogeneous Agents and Aggregate Shocks (2020)
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