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Optimal Monetary Policy with Heterogeneous Agents: Discretion, Commitment, and Timeless Policy

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  • Eduardo Dávila
  • Andreas Schaab

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This paper characterizes optimal monetary policy in a canonical heterogeneous-agent New Keynesian (HANK) model with wage rigidity. Under discretion, a utilitarian planner faces the incentive to redistribute towards indebted, high marginal utility households, which is a new source of inflationary bias. With commitment, i) zero inflation is the optimal long-run policy, ii) time-consistent policy requires both inflation and distributional penalties, and iii) the planner trades off aggregate stabilization against distributional considerations, so Divine Coincidence fails. We compute optimal stabilization policy in response to productivity, demand, and cost-push shocks using sequence-space methods, which we extend to Ramsey problems and welfare analysis.

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  • Eduardo Dávila & Andreas Schaab, 2023. "Optimal Monetary Policy with Heterogeneous Agents: Discretion, Commitment, and Timeless Policy," NBER Working Papers 30961, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    • Handle: RePEc:nbr:nberwo:30961
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    1. Bilbiie, Florin O. & Monacelli, Tommaso & Perotti, Roberto, 2024. "Stabilization vs. Redistribution: The optimal monetary–fiscal mix," Journal of Monetary Economics, Elsevier, vol. 147(S).
    2. González, Beatriz & Nuño, Galo & Thaler, Dominik & Albrizio, Silvia, 2024. "Unlocking efficiency: optimal monetary policy when capital misallocation matters," Research Bulletin, European Central Bank, vol. 118.
    3. Philip Schnorpfeil & Michael Weber & Andreas Hackethal & Michael Weber, 2023. "Households’ Response to the Wealth Effects of Inflation," CESifo Working Paper Series 10648, CESifo.
    4. Dila Asfuroglu, 2024. "Surprise by Anticipated Inflation," SAGE Open, , vol. 14(2), pages 21582440241, May.
    5. Krueger, Dirk & Uhlig, Harald, 2022. "Neoclassical Growth with Limited Commitment," CEPR Discussion Papers 17757, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    6. James Bullard & Aarti Singh & Jacek Suda, 2024. "Optimal Macroeconomic Policies in a Heterogeneous World," IMF Economic Review, Palgrave Macmillan;International Monetary Fund, vol. 72(3), pages 991-1041, September.
    7. Cristiano Cantore & Vedanta Dhamija, 2024. "The Perils of a Dual Mandate," Economics Series Working Papers 1059, University of Oxford, Department of Economics.

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    • E52 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit - - - Monetary Policy
    • E61 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Policy Objectives; Policy Designs and Consistency; Policy Coordination

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