【ECON20191209】   宏观经济学研讨会 （总第264期）      

【时间】2019年5月15日（周三）12：15－13：45          

【地点】明商0202教室          

【主讲】陈朴 中国人民大学经济学院副教授        

【主题】Wealth and Volatility（Jonathan Heathcote & Fabrizio Perri, Review of Economic Studies, 2018）          

【点评】刘凯 中国人民大学经济学院副教授          

【摘要】Between 2007 and 2013, U.S. households experienced a large and persistent decline in net worth. The objective of this article is to study the business cycle implications of such a decline. We first develop a tractable monetary model in which households face idiosyncratic unemployment risk that they can partially self-insure using savings. A low level of liquid household wealth opens the door to self-fulfilling fluctuations: if wealth-poor households expect high unemployment, they have a strong precautionary incentive to cut spending, which can make the expectation of high unemployment a reality. Monetary policy, because of the zero lower bound, cannot rule out such expectations-driven recessions. In contrast, when wealth is sufficiently high, an aggressive monetary policy can keep the economy at full employment. Finally, we document that during the U.S. Great Recession wealth-poor households increased saving more sharply than richer households, pointing towards the importance of the precautionary channel over this period.          ________________________________________          

人大宏观经济学研讨会（Macro Workshop）旨在追踪宏观经济学国际最新进展，倡导构建符合国情的动态优化模型，并使用计算机模拟研究经济增长、收入分配和宏观政策等中国宏观经济重大问题。          

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