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Spend What You Learn: Heterogeneous Agents, Sentiments, and Aggregate Demand
Ludwig Straub
- Date29 June 2026
- Time 11h30 - 12h30
- Room Online and in room 4
Résumé
We integrate dispersed information into a heterogeneous-agent New Keynesian model in which households cannot fully distinguish idiosyncratic from aggregate income, creating a two-way feedback between household sentiment about future income and aggregate demand. We develop a portable methodology—based on a forecast matrix—to embed various types of learning into arbitrary sequence-space models. Our model yields three key results: delayed overreaction of beliefs to shocks, a “sentiment inertia” feedback that amplifies hump-shaped responses, and a “sentiment accelerator” that generates persistently slow recoveries. These results depend crucially on the interaction between household heterogeneity and dispersed information.
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