Project description
How inequality and housing shape the economy
Households and businesses both feel economic shocks from inflation surges and housing crises, but they are affected in different ways. This aspect is often overlooked by many economic models that treat households and companies as if they all behave the same. The ERC-funded HIPSTERMacro project aims to design macroeconomic models that capture how differences in income, housing, and pricing behaviour shape the wider economy. By simulating how monetary and fiscal policies ripple through households and firms, the project explores how inequality, debt, and housing markets amplify or dampen economic shocks. It will also study how prices adjust in periods of high inflation. The goal is to set a new standard for how economists analyse fluctuations.
Objective
This project will develop macroeconomic models with household and firm heterogeneity to investigate the importance of housing, inequality, and price-setting in macroeconomic fluctuations and the transmission and efficacy of policy. The objective is to provide a modeling framework that is consistent with both empirical microeconomic evidence on household and firm behavior and macro evidence on the response of the aggregate economy to economic shocks. A central theme will be on non-linearities and large shocks. Computational methods for solving heterogeneous agent models non-linearly in the sequence space will be developed. The ultimate goal is to help make these models the new standard for the study of fluctuations and policy evaluation in macro.
Inequality and incomplete markets will be a central theme. The first objective is to quantify how changes in monetary policy redistribute resources across households and demographic groups, including gender, race, and ethnicity. The project will also focus on the price-setting behavior of firms by studying state-dependent pricing models. It will show how shifts in nominal demand can lead to shifts in the New Keynesian Phillips Curve. Next, the project will study monetary and fiscal policy in a high-inflation environment when incomplete markets and state-dependent pricing interact.
The project will also focus on housing and mortgage debt as an amplification and propagation mechanism. The project will develop a rich benchmark model of housing for policy evaluation. First, the project will investigate how housing and debt heterogeneity affect monetary policy transmission. Next, the state-dependent pricing model will be integrated into the housing model to perform a cross-country analysis to quantify the importance of different arrangements in the mortgage market for the economy's response to the inflationary episode post-COVID pandemic.
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HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC)
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Sweden
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