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Financial Frictions: Macro vs Micro Volatility
We argue that consumer credit spreads matter materially for household choices and that time-varying spreads have important …
Renato Faccini, Seungcheol Lee, Ralph Luetticke, Morten Ravn, Tobias Renkin
Posted Dec 3, 2024
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A Temporary VAT Cut as Unconventional Fiscal Policy
We exploit Germany’s temporary three-percentage-point VAT cut in the second half of 2020 to study the spending response to …
Rüdiger Bachmann, Benjamin Born, Olga Goldfayn-Frank, Georgi Kocharkov, Ralph Luetticke, Michael Weber
Posted Sep 1, 2024
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Unconventional Monetary Policy Shocks and their Distributional Implications
We identify a novel series of unconventional monetary policy shocks for the U.S. by combining Romer and Romer’s narrative …
David Bügel, Albert Hidalgo, Ralph Luetticke
Posted Jun 14, 2024
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An Endogenous Gridpoint Method for Distributional Dynamics
The histogram method (Young, 2010), while the standard approach for analyzing distributional dynamics in heterogeneous agent models, is …
Christian Bayer, Ralph Luetticke, Maximilian Weiss, Yannik Winkelmann
Posted Apr 4, 2024
Cite CEPR DP19067 Ungated Presentation Code