% WARNING: This file may contain UTF-8 (unicode) characters. % While non-8-bit characters are officially unsupported in BibTeX, you % can use them with the biber backend of biblatex % usepackage[backend=biber]{biblatex} @techreport{NBERw23281, title = "Monetary Policy, Bounded Rationality, and Incomplete Markets", author = "Farhi, Emmanuel and Werning, Iván", institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research", type = "Working Paper", series = "Working Paper Series", number = "23281", year = "2017", month = "March", doi = {10.3386/w23281}, URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w23281", abstract = {This paper extends the benchmark New-Keynesian model by introducing two frictions: (1) agent heterogeneity with incomplete markets, uninsurable idiosyncratic risk, and occasionally binding borrowing constraints; and (2) bounded rationality in the form of level-k thinking. Compared to the benchmark model, we show that the interaction of these two frictions leads to a powerful mitigation of the effects of monetary policy, which is more pronounced at long horizons, and offers a potential rationalization of the “forward guidance puzzle”. Each of these frictions, in isolation, would lead to no or much smaller departures from the benchmark model.}, }