Seminar

Past

Spend What You Learn: Heterogeneous Agents, Sentiments, and Aggregate Demand

Ludwig Straub

  • Date29 June 2026
  • Time 11h30 - 12h30
  • Room Online and in room 4

Abstract

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.

Other seminars

Pre-Trends Ahead of Monetary Policy Surprises: Recovering the Response of Corporate Investment

  • Seminar

  • Séminaire Banque de France

  • Date 13 October 2026

  • Place Online and Room 4 conference space

  • Speaker or organiser Antoine Hubert de Fraisse (London School of Economics)

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The Role of Macroeconomic Uncertainty for Endogenous Attention to Central Bank Communication

  • Seminar

  • Séminaire Banque de France

  • Date 6 October 2026

  • Place Online and in Room F148

  • Speaker or organiser Lena Dräger (Leibniz Universität Hannover)

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Innovate to Borrow: How Intangibles Shape Finance and Growth

  • Seminar

  • Séminaire Banque de France

  • Date 29 September 2026

  • Place Online and in Room 4 of the congress space

  • Speaker or organiser Victoria Vanasco (CREI)

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