Pub Date : 2026-01-06DOI: 10.1016/j.jedc.2025.105254
Bertrand Achou , Philippe De Donder , Franca Glenzer , Minjoon Lee , Marie-Louise Leroux
Marginal utility of spending when needing long-term care, and the related incentives for precautionary savings and insurance, may vary significantly by whether one receives care at home or in a nursing home. In this paper, we develop strategic survey questions to estimate those differences. All else equal, we find that the marginal utility of spending (net of the minimum cost of care) is significantly higher when receiving care at home rather than in a nursing home. Using an illustrative calibrated life-cycle model with these LTC-setting-specific preferences, we obtain that the higher marginal utility of spending under home care generates stronger precautionary savings incentives and a higher valuation of home care subsidies relative to nursing homes. Overall, our results suggest that shifts (e.g., due to Covid) leading to a stronger preference for home care could significantly increase savings as well as the benefits of allocating resources to long-term care.
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Pub Date : 2026-01-05DOI: 10.1016/j.jedc.2026.105255
Jonathan J․ Adams
Behavioral expectations affect determinacy in macroeconomic models. Relaxing rational expectations can make models more or less well behaved, depending on the behavioral assumptions. In some cases, multiplicity is created; in other cases, multiplicity is eliminated. Is it possible to tell exactly when there are multiple solutions? Yes: I derive a Behavioral Blanchard-Kahn sufficient condition that ensures a unique equilibrium exists. An equilibrium must be unique if the BBK condition holds, or if a Sunspot Admissibility (SSA) condition fails. When SSA holds and the BBK condition fails, multiplicity occurs. These conditions depend on the spectrum of the behavioral expectation operator. I describe how to check these conditions for an arbitrary behavioral expectation, and illustrate with a large variety of popular types of expectations, heuristics, and information frictions. As an example, I demonstrate that a large class of behavioral expectations imply a unique solution to the New Keynesian model with an interest rate peg, including all strictly backwards-looking heuristics. Another class of expectations imply that asset prices exhibit non-fundamental volatility in a standard model.
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Pub Date : 2026-01-01DOI: 10.1016/j.jedc.2025.105221
Marco Del Negro , Ibrahima Diagne , Keshav Dogra , Pranay Gundam , Donggyu Lee , Brian Pacula
We use an estimated medium-scale HANK model to investigate how the tradeoff between stabilizing inflation and consumption volatility varies for households with different levels of wealth. Consumption for the rich is mostly affected by demand shocks via their exposure to highly procyclical profits—for them, stabilizing consumption and inflation coincide. The poor are more vulnerable to supply shocks, hence aggressively stabilizing inflation is costly in terms of their consumption volatility. While they dislike inflation because it erodes real wages, they are hurt even more by an aggressive monetary policy response to inflation, which reduces real wages further while increasing unemployment.
{"title":"Tradeoffs for the poor, divine coincidence for the rich","authors":"Marco Del Negro , Ibrahima Diagne , Keshav Dogra , Pranay Gundam , Donggyu Lee , Brian Pacula","doi":"10.1016/j.jedc.2025.105221","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jedc.2025.105221","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We use an estimated medium-scale HANK model to investigate how the tradeoff between stabilizing inflation and consumption volatility varies for households with different levels of wealth. Consumption for the rich is mostly affected by demand shocks via their exposure to highly procyclical profits—for them, stabilizing consumption and inflation coincide. The poor are more vulnerable to supply shocks, hence aggressively stabilizing inflation is costly in terms of their consumption volatility. While they dislike inflation because it erodes real wages, they are hurt even more by an aggressive monetary policy response to inflation, which reduces real wages further while increasing unemployment.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48314,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control","volume":"182 ","pages":"Article 105221"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145884302","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-01-01DOI: 10.1016/j.jedc.2025.105226
Pablo Winant
We present two complementary algorithms to solve nonlinear rational expectations models characterized by first order conditions: an accelerated time-iteration method and a Newton–Krylov solver. Both approaches exploit an explicit construction of the derivative operator (and the model Jacobian) and achieve quadratic convergence near the solution, yielding large computational gains over standard time iteration. We show how to apply these linear operators without forming dense matrices and invert the resulting systems efficiently using truncated Neumann series or GMRES. On three benchmark models (consumption–savings, RBC, and a two-country model), the two methods produce the same solution with substantially reduced runtimes.
{"title":"Back in time. fast. Accelerated time iterations","authors":"Pablo Winant","doi":"10.1016/j.jedc.2025.105226","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jedc.2025.105226","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We present two complementary algorithms to solve nonlinear rational expectations models characterized by first order conditions: an accelerated time-iteration method and a Newton–Krylov solver. Both approaches exploit an explicit construction of the derivative operator (and the model Jacobian) and achieve quadratic convergence near the solution, yielding large computational gains over standard time iteration. We show how to apply these linear operators without forming dense matrices and invert the resulting systems efficiently using truncated Neumann series or GMRES. On three benchmark models (consumption–savings, RBC, and a two-country model), the two methods produce the same solution with substantially reduced runtimes.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48314,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control","volume":"182 ","pages":"Article 105226"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145938758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2026-01-01DOI: 10.1016/j.jedc.2025.105238
Dario Bonciani , Joonseok Oh
We study optimal monetary policy in a model with incomplete markets, in the form of uninsurable unemployment risk, and an occasionally binding zero lower bound (ZLB) constraint. The optimal policy consists of keeping the nominal rate at zero longer than implied by current macroeconomic conditions. Such policy improves expected labour market conditions, substantially mitigating the rise in unemployment risk and precautionary savings. As a result, we find that market incompleteness does not significantly amplify contractions in output and inflation at the ZLB. However, when the central bank follows more realistic policy rules instead of the optimal policy, incomplete markets exacerbate the fall in demand, emphasising the importance of unemployment insurance for output stabilisation.
{"title":"Unemployment risk, liquidity traps, and monetary policy","authors":"Dario Bonciani , Joonseok Oh","doi":"10.1016/j.jedc.2025.105238","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jedc.2025.105238","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We study optimal monetary policy in a model with incomplete markets, in the form of uninsurable unemployment risk, and an occasionally binding zero lower bound (ZLB) constraint. The optimal policy consists of keeping the nominal rate at zero longer than implied by current macroeconomic conditions. Such policy improves expected labour market conditions, substantially mitigating the rise in unemployment risk and precautionary savings. As a result, we find that market incompleteness does not significantly amplify contractions in output and inflation at the ZLB. However, when the central bank follows more realistic policy rules instead of the optimal policy, incomplete markets exacerbate the fall in demand, emphasising the importance of unemployment insurance for output stabilisation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48314,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control","volume":"182 ","pages":"Article 105238"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145938797","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-31DOI: 10.1016/j.jedc.2025.105249
Reiner Martin , Edward O’Brien , M. Udara Peiris , Dimitrios P. Tsomocos
When default losses elevate borrowing costs, expanding credit cannot stabilize the economy because default rates feed back to lending rates through bank balance sheets. Asset management companies (AMCs) break this loop by purchasing nonperforming loans at their long-run recovery values, thereby fixing the effective default rate that banks face. Government purchases of performing loans expand credit but leave this feedback intact. In a model calibrated to the eurozone, the AMC reduces quarterly default rates by 0.8 percentage points, lowers lending rates by 1.6 percentage points, and raises welfare by 0.2%. Government purchases crowd out bank deposits, contracting credit; default rates rise by 1.8 percentage points, lending rates increase by 1.2 percentage points, and welfare falls by 0.3%.
{"title":"Stabilizing credit when nonperforming loans surge: The role of asset management companies","authors":"Reiner Martin , Edward O’Brien , M. Udara Peiris , Dimitrios P. Tsomocos","doi":"10.1016/j.jedc.2025.105249","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jedc.2025.105249","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>When default losses elevate borrowing costs, expanding credit cannot stabilize the economy because default rates feed back to lending rates through bank balance sheets. Asset management companies (AMCs) break this loop by purchasing nonperforming loans at their long-run recovery values, thereby fixing the effective default rate that banks face. Government purchases of performing loans expand credit but leave this feedback intact. In a model calibrated to the eurozone, the AMC reduces quarterly default rates by 0.8 percentage points, lowers lending rates by 1.6 percentage points, and raises welfare by 0.2%. Government purchases crowd out bank deposits, contracting credit; default rates rise by 1.8 percentage points, lending rates increase by 1.2 percentage points, and welfare falls by 0.3%.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48314,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control","volume":"183 ","pages":"Article 105249"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145939756","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-12-31DOI: 10.1016/j.jedc.2025.105248
Anton Bondarev , Thorsten Upmann
This paper investigates how ecological thresholds affect strategic exploitation in renewable resource games. We extend the standard single-agent optimal control harvesting model to a non-cooperative differential game with two agents, where the resource follows piecewise-smooth (PWS) dynamics and growth rates change abruptly at a stock threshold. The resulting three-dimensional (3D) state–costate system generates new strategic behaviour absent in smooth models. We identify sliding regions and hybrid crossing limit cycles (HCLCs) as potential open-loop Nash equilibria (OLNE), depending on parameter values. These outcomes correspond to distinct economic regimes: sliding equilibria capture threshold exploitation at fragile steady states, while HCLCs reflect endogenous boom–bust harvesting cycles. In contrast to two-dimensional (2D) optimal-control models where HCLCs cannot be optimal, our results show that strategic interaction in multi-agent settings can endogenously sustain such cycles. The analysis reveals how ecological discontinuities and strategic competition jointly shape resource dynamics, offering new insights into the stability and management of renewable resources.
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Pub Date : 2025-12-30DOI: 10.1016/j.jedc.2025.105250
Xuesong Huang, Jianhao Lin, Yifan Zhang
We study the welfare effects of strategically using public information when the provider’s information quality is unobservable. Our model features a benevolent public authority that privately observes her information quality and strategically chooses whether to provide public information to private-sector agents in a beauty-contest game à la Morris and Shin (2002). We show that the authority’s equilibrium strategy hinges on her expected information advantage relative to private-sector agents. When the advantage is either small or large, the authority pools across qualities, and with risk-averse agents, the added uncertainty regarding quality lowers welfare relative to a benchmark without such uncertainty. When the information advantage is intermediate, a separating equilibrium emerges: the high-quality authority provides public information, while the low-quality authority withholds it. In this case, the strategic use of public information enhances welfare by channeling superior information into decisions while limiting overreaction to weak information. By delineating these regimes, we clarify when the social value of strategic public information is beneficial versus detrimental, offering guidance for public communication policies.
我们研究了当提供者的信息质量不可观察时,策略性地使用公共信息的福利效应。我们的模型以一个仁慈的公共权威为特征,它私下观察自己的信息质量,并在选美比赛中战略性地选择是否向私营部门代理人提供公共信息(la Morris and Shin, 2002)。我们表明,权威的均衡策略取决于她相对于私营部门代理人的预期信息优势。当优势或大或小时,权力集中在不同的品质上,而对于风险厌恶的代理人,与没有这种不确定性的基准相比,质量方面增加的不确定性降低了福利。当信息优势处于中间状态时,出现了一种分离均衡:高质量权威提供公开信息,低质量权威隐瞒公开信息。在这种情况下,战略性地使用公共信息,通过将优质信息引导到决策中,同时限制对弱信息的过度反应,从而提高福利。通过描述这些机制,我们明确了战略性公共信息的社会价值何时是有益的,何时是有害的,从而为公共传播政策提供指导。
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Pub Date : 2025-12-30DOI: 10.1016/j.jedc.2025.105251
Elyès Jouini
We introduce the Anticipations-Based Production Equilibrium (ABPE) as a minimal extension of the Arrow–Radner Production Equilibrium (ARPE). Whereas ARPE requires optimality and rational expectations, ABPE relies only on local optimization and locally coherent expectations. This mild departure preserves internal consistency, coincides with ARPE in discrete time, while in continuous time allows for speculative bubbles, defined intrinsically as price trajectories that rise explosively before collapsing in finite time. To illustrate the concept, we develop a continuous-time production economy with heterogeneous beliefs and convex adjustment costs, where bubbles emerge endogenously from the interplay of nonlinear price dynamics, and belief-driven momentum. We characterize the precise conditions under which bubbles emerge, and distinguish between financial bubbles, which affect only asset prices, and real bubbles, which also impact production and growth. The ABPE framework is general and accommodates a variety of belief formation mechanisms, which we illustrate with anticipations constructed through backward inference and regret minimization.
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Pub Date : 2025-12-30DOI: 10.1016/j.jedc.2025.105247
Elijah Broadbent , Huberto M. Ennis , Tyler J. Pike , Horacio Sapriza
The provision of bank credit to firms and households affects macroeconomic performance. We use survey measures of changes in bank lending standards, disaggregated by loan category, to quantify the effect of changes in banks’ attitudes toward lending on aggregate output, inflation, and interest rates. Bank lending to businesses is particularly important for macroeconomic outcomes, with peak effects on output growth of around 30 to 40 basis points after four quarters of the initial shock. These effects depend on the stage of the business cycle and the proximity of the short-term interest rate to its effective lower bound. The effects are larger when output is growing below trend, when uncertainty is increasing or high, and when interest rates are away from the lower bound. We also find that the response of the economy to lending-standards shocks is asymmetric, with tightening shocks having larger effects on output.
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