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@ludwigstraub
Ludwig Straub
3 years
Wrapping up my first year PhD course today. Had a great time with incredible students! As a huge fan of using flowcharts to represent models (you should try it too it's addictive!), I created one for the textbook New-Keynesian model 🤓
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Ludwig Straub
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Recent inflation and consumer spending numbers have remained strong. Why? One idea that people seem to dismiss somewhat: Excess savings “It’s been two years since Biden’s stimulus, everybody already spent it” A short 🧵 on why that is the wrong way of thinking about it... 1/N
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The Wall Street Journal
2 years
Inflation firmed and consumers stepped up spending in January, likely leaving the Federal Reserve on track to keep raising interest rates
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Ludwig Straub
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1/N My very first thread! ... I’d like to use it to explain some new work. Let’s start with a thought experiment: Say all US household debt was refinanced to a 1% lower rate. Would it have an impact on the economy?
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Ludwig Straub
6 months
So happy and honored to be among this year's @SloanFoundation Research Fellows! Thank you to my wonderful collaborators, colleagues, and mentors!
@SloanFoundation
Sloan Foundation
6 months
We have today announced the names of the 2024 Sloan Research Fellows! Congratulations to these 126 outstanding early-career researchers:
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Ludwig Straub
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Couldn’t be happier about this!! Thanks to the AQR Institute at @LBS and to everyone who supported me over the last few years!
@LBS
London Business School
2 years
Congratulations to @ludwigstraub , winner of the AQR Asset Management Institute Young Researcher Award 2022. These awards recognise talented new academics producing impactful research in the field of #AssetManagement . Read more: #MonetaryPolicy #Research
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Ludwig Straub
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Are you a 2nd yr grad student in econ interested in recent advances in HANK models? Solution methods, fiscal & monetary policy, open economy, estimation? This may be for you 🙂 @a_auclert , Matt Rognlie and I are running a 3 day workshop at @nberpubs in June. Details 👇 Please RT!
@nberpubs
NBER
3 years
Call for Applications: Graduate Student Workshop on Heterogeneous Agent Macroeconomics. To be held in-person, assuming public health conditions permit, June 6-8, '22, Cambridge, MA. Applications due no later than 11:59 pm (EST) Monday, February 28, 2022.
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Ludwig Straub
3 years
What a lovely day this would have been to have the AEAs in Boston...
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Ludwig Straub
2 years
Matt Rognlie teaching 35 amazing students how to solve for the dynamics of heterogeneous agent models at our ⁦ @nberpubs ⁩ het agent macro workshop this morning! ⁦ @a_auclert ⁩ ⁦ @BardoczyBence ⁩ Michael Cai
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Ludwig Straub
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Come to our heterogeneous-agent macro workshop in Frankfurt this year! Hosted at the wonderful Goethe University. All the details are below👇
@MathiasTrabandt
Mathias Trabandt
7 months
I am delighted to announce the Goethe Macro Training School Workshop on Heterogeneous-Agent Macroeconomics on June 24-26, 2024, in Frankfurt (Germany). Instructors: @a_auclert @rognlie_matthew @ludwigstraub . Link to call for applications:
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Ludwig Straub
2 years
How does it stop? One very natural way: Money is earned more and more by richer people who spend it less and less (lower MPCs). @a_auclert Matt Rognlie and I call this the “Trickling Up” effect. The stimulus slowly trickles up the wealth distribution, where it remains. 4/N
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Ludwig Straub
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(Toy) models are elaborate stories. Here is the story underlying our recent research, without any math. Maybe it gets you to view the world in a slightly different light :)
@AtifRMian
Atif Mian
4 years
What is saving? The number we "save" in our bank account out of the pay-check is just that - a number in a computer Our hope when we save is that the number means something. But that cannot be taken for granted
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Ludwig Straub
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Some new work on heterogeneous-agent models in an open economy setting. Took us a while to finish it, but finally the draft is out: 👇
@nberpubs
NBER
3 years
The rise in import prices after a depreciation can cause a contraction in a Heterogeneous-Agent New Keynesian open economy model due to households’ high marginal propensity to consume, from Auclert, Rognlie, Souchier, and @ludwigstraub
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Ludwig Straub
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How long does the sloshing last before it trickles up to the top 1%? In a recent *very short* paper, we explore this idea. 5/N
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Ludwig Straub
1 year
If you read a paper today, make it this one👇
@IvanWerning
Ivan Werning
1 year
Inflation, what is its most proximate cause? What is the right general framework to think about this messy phenomenon? Very excited to put out this new paper exploring a generalized "conflict" perspective as the right answer. Paper here: 🧵a thread...
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Ludwig Straub
4 years
It really hurts that Alberto is no longer with us. His office was right next door to my own. Let me share one of the many memories of him I will carry around with me ...
@S_Stantcheva
Stefanie Stantcheva
4 years
Ciao, Alberto.. Remembering Alberto Alesina's research, contributions, and life with @EliasPapaioann2 at @voxeu ( @HKS @Harvard @Unibocconi )
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Ludwig Straub
4 years
Thank you @SCOR_SE @PSEinfo for awarding us the 2020 Young Researcher Award!
@SCOR_SE
SCOR
4 years
Congratulations to Ludwig Straub and Robert Ulbricht for having received the 2020 Young Researcher Award.
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Ludwig Straub
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We find that the *first round* spending (“partial equilibrium”) only takes 3 quarters! Captures the intuition that most Americans spent their Covid money by 2021. But the trickling up only begins then... It's so slow that it takes 5 years (!) for excess savings to trickle up! 6/N
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Ludwig Straub
3 years
I had the pleasure of organizing a session on aggregate demand in networks, today 12.15 Eastern, with the fabulous @jensqu4r3d , Christina Patterson and @DBaqaee . I will share some preliminary work with Asger Andersen, Emil Toft Hansen, Kilian Huber, Niels Johannesen... Join us!
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Ludwig Straub
4 years
Exactly the prediction coming out of my paper with @VeronicaGuerri7 @IvanWerning @guido_lorenzoni : What looked like a supply shock initially can morph into a demand shock, as financially affected workers won't spend. Despite ~0 risk of infection. Slides:
@Brad_Setser
Brad Setser
4 years
Will the pandemic add to the global savings glut? There is a hint in this report from @KeithBradsher that Chinese households now want more precautionary savings 1/2
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Ludwig Straub
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9/N For more details on all of this, see our recent paper on ‘indebted demand’ 👇 Paper: Slides: Youtube talk: @virtualmacrosem (incl. Covid discussion after 45 mins)
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Ludwig Straub
4 years
This is an important thread: This crisis is different from earlier ones because the rich are cutting back on spending massively, and are less exposed to the shock, thus saving more. Maybe helps explain why asset prices recovered so quickly?
@profsufi
Amir Sufi
4 years
Is Covid amplifying the Saving Glut of the Rich and its associated issues for the overall economy? Some thoughts on recent empirical economics research on Covid. 1/N
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Ludwig Straub
2 years
Tomorrow (April 1) is the last day to apply to the "heterogeneous agent macro in the sequence space" EABCN training school in Mannheim, June 15 - 17. Details 👇 Hope to see you there! Thanks to @klaus_adam for the initiative behind this!
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Ludwig Straub
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8/N What can be done? (1) Redistribution: progressive income or wealth tax. (2) Address structural problems leading to high inequality, e.g. inequality of opportunity. (3) Re Covid, fix the health crisis first! But pay for gov’t debt by taxing the have’s, not the have-not’s.
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Ludwig Straub
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No! What happened with the money that was spent? One person’s spending is another person’s income … So your stimulus check gets spent again...and again...etc. This way the Covid stimulus can slosh around the US economy for a very long time, raising demand and inflation. 3/N
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Ludwig Straub
3 years
Thanks for sitting through both papers :) Hope you got something out of them! Definitely thanks for your excellent questions on both.
@jasonfurman
Jason Furman
3 years
And now @ludwigstraub 's second paper of the day at Jackson Hole. I'm not sure when someone last had two papers there.
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Ludwig Straub
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If you are curious about the analytical details, see the paper here: We also have a beautiful Jupyter notebook that allows you to play around with the model yourself, change the calibration, etc... 8/N
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Ludwig Straub
1 year
Deadline for our heterogeneous agent workshop is today !! 23:59 ET... See link below 👇 A few of my personal highlights of our workshop ... a mini 🧵... 1/5
@a_auclert
Adrien Auclert
1 year
🚨 Heterogeneous-agent macro workshop 🚨 Are you a macro graduate student interested in heterogeneity in macro, monetary policy, and/or fiscal policy? @BardoczyBence , @ludwigstraub , Matt Rognlie and I are organizing a workshop for you this summer:
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Ludwig Straub
4 years
Very excited to present this still very young new project! Thanks to the #OIFM team for inviting me. You can sign up here: Looking forward to your comments tomorrow!
@chenzix
Chenzi Xu
4 years
Tomorrow! Slight correction: @ludwigstraub will be presenting "Monetary Policy and Exchange Rates with Heterogeneous Agents: Resurrecting the Real Income Channel" joint with Matt Rognlie & Adrien Auclert
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Ludwig Straub
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Apply to our het agent workshop this June !! Details here: 👇
@a_auclert
Adrien Auclert
1 year
🚨 Heterogeneous-agent macro workshop 🚨 Are you a macro graduate student interested in heterogeneity in macro, monetary policy, and/or fiscal policy? @BardoczyBence , @ludwigstraub , Matt Rognlie and I are organizing a workshop for you this summer:
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Ludwig Straub
2 years
Can we shorten this? Yes! Inflation itself slowly erodes the real value of excess savings. The gov can use higher tax revenue to “mop up” some excess savings by reducing debt (similar to nice work by Angeletos @ChenLian92 @ChristianKWolf ). The Fed can push rates higher. 7/N
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Ludwig Straub
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2/N First, we look at who *holds* household debt in their portfolios. Recent work with @AtifRMian and @profsufi shows it’s mostly pension funds, time deposits of big corp's, foreign central banks & investment funds. These funds & their owners have a very high propensity to save!
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Ludwig Straub
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Brilliant thread that explains why sovereign debt restructuring for emerging markets is key to avoid weak demand going forward, incl. for advanced economy produced goods & services.
@michaelxpettis
Michael Pettis
4 years
Good article on sovereign debt restructurings. We should recognize that countries struggling to repay debts are also countries struggling to pay for imports, and the more they do of the former, the less of the latter. In fact the... via @financialtimes
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Ludwig Straub
2 years
@gchodorowreich and I are looking for a pre-doc that would work closely with us at Harvard! If you're excited about macro research, consider applying at the link below 👇 Please RT! @econ_ra #EconTwitter
@HarvardEcon
Harvard Department of Economics
2 years
Professors @gchodorowreich and @ludwigstraub are hiring a pre-doc in macroeconomics. Apply below!
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Ludwig Straub
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5/N (2) That very argument however also implies that those greater debt levels *require* lower interest rates, or else they would harm demand! In other words, greater debt levels *force* central banks’ hands: They can no longer raise rates without sacrificing aggregate demand!
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Ludwig Straub
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7/N This is, in my view, where many advanced economies are right now. Debt levels are at all time highs, interest rates at (close to) all time lows. With Covid, these trends will only accelerate, all but guaranteeing a long life close to, or at, the ZLB.
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Ludwig Straub
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6/N (3) Now imagine debt is so high that interest rates can no longer fall sufficiently, e.g. due to the ZLB (currency union similar). Then the economy enters a persistent state of too little demand. We call this a “debt trap”.
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Ludwig Straub
4 years
Praise you don't get every day... Thank you @paulkrugman for reading our paper with @VeronicaGuerri7 @IvanWerning and @guido_lorenzoni and posting your comments!
@paulkrugman
Paul Krugman
4 years
Anyway, great stuff — deep thinking with immediate real-world usefulness, produced very fast. Here's to good economics in bad times 7/
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Ludwig Straub
4 years
Fantastic thread summarizing our work on inequality, debt and aggregate demand.
@profsufi
Amir Sufi
4 years
The world economy entered the COVID-19 crisis with very low interest rates and very high debt levels, which will complicate policy efforts to boost the economy. We released two @nberpubs papers that address how this happened and what it means for policy ( @AtifRMian @ludwigstraub )
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Ludwig Straub
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13/13 Saving of rich: @M_De_Nardi @ben_moll @GNatvik @KarenDynan Secular stagnation: @LHSummers @GautiEggertsson @LukaszRachel @sanjayrajsingh @annastansbury @Realprofneil And lots on inequality, too! Probably forgetting many, feel free to add below! Thanks for reading my thread!
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Ludwig Straub
4 years
Maybe a bit fast, but here you can slow it down arbitrarily! Thanks so much for having us, Erik Hurst, @GregWKaplan @glviolante !
@IvanWerning
Ivan Werning
4 years
Here is the great Ludwig Straub from Harvard at NBER giving a short 15m presentation of our joint work on the macro fallout and policy of COVID. He did a great job and stayed in time!
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Ludwig Straub
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In 20/21, the US gov. transferred >15% of GDP to its citizens, financed by higher gov. debt. A lot of it was needed and spent with high MPCs, see eg evidence of Chetty @nhendren82 @p_ganong @pascaljnoel @JoeVavra . Boosted aggregate demand and inflation in 21. End of story? 2/N
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Ludwig Straub
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Hello #econtwitter , @gchodorowreich , Emmanuel Farhi and myself are looking for an enthusiastic full-time macro pre-doc. Strong coding skills desired. Please share and apply! @econ_ra Details here:
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Ludwig Straub
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What an exceptional group of students! Definitely check out our materials below 👇
@a_auclert
Adrien Auclert
1 year
Wrapping up a fantastic 3-day session at @nberpubs with 40 fantastic students. The future of heterogenous-agent macro is bright! For those who couldn’t attend, our code and lecture notes are online: @ludwigstraub @BardoczyBence
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Ludwig Straub
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Great coverage by @martinwolf_ of our recent work on inequality and debt with @AtifRMian and @profsufi . @martinwolf_ 's insightful pieces have always been a source of inspiration to me, so it's very special to me to read him cover one of some of my own papers! Thank you!
@martinwolf_
Martin Wolf
4 years
Martin Wolf: How to escape the trap of excessive debt
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Ludwig Straub
3 years
I know it's not where people's minds are right now, but the deadline for our HANK workshop at NBER is today! Details below 👇
@nberpubs
NBER
3 years
Call for Applications: Graduate Student Workshop on Heterogeneous Agent Macroeconomics. To be held in-person, assuming public health conditions permit, June 6-8, '22, Cambridge, MA. Applications due no later than 11:59 pm (EST) Monday, February 28, 2022.
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Ludwig Straub
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11/N Link to our empirical work, referenced above on link between rising income inequality and US household debt: Link to WSJ story mentioned above:
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Ludwig Straub
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... and (among many other papers) two of our own previous papers: - a full length paper on excess savings in open economies - our paper on fiscal policy transmission (major revision coming soon!) Comments very welcome! 10/10
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Ludwig Straub
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3/N The borrowing households on the other hand have a high propensity to spend. The 1% decline in the interest rate would tend to *boost* aggregate demand! Thus: Aggregate demand is decreasing in debt service cost. Why is this relevant in today’s world?
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Ludwig Straub
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[notation more or less like in Gali, green arrow = positive effect, red = negative, numbers are coefficients picked up in log-linearized economy, mc = real marginal cost, transmission also to first order only, i.e. no price dispersion etc] Comments welcome!
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Ludwig Straub
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Come see @IvanWerning present an update to our paper on #Covid with @guido_lorenzoni and @VeronicaGuerri7 ! Now live on
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Ludwig Straub
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@HellerHurwicz @KyleHerkenhoff @UMNews Congratulations both! Funny that they made you wear the same shirt and sweater for the pictures.
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Ludwig Straub
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Or Keynesian Economics.
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Ludwig Straub
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10/N Among the many more things in the paper: Why borrowing to *invest* (e.g. gov’t investment) is exempt from the above problem if the investment doesn’t raise inequality (i.e. unlike some of AI or robotics?).
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Ludwig Straub
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@peterhtillmann I used to spend hours on TikZ creating these flowcharts until @IvanWerning showed me how simple this is to do in Keynote...
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Ludwig Straub
2 years
Great news indeed! Congratulations, Oleg @itskhoki !! 🎉
@HansbergRossi
Esteban Rossi-Hansberg
2 years
Fantastic news. Congratulations to ⁦ @itskhoki ⁩ for winning the 2022 Clark Medal. A great economist and a fantastic person and colleague. Wonderful choice.
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4/N (1) When borrowing rates fall, debt can be higher without harming demand. Great! This is often used as an argument why we shouldn’t worry about debt right now.
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Ludwig Straub
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Starting now! Come see @VeronicaGuerri7 present an update of our paper with @guido_lorenzoni and @IvanWerning !
@PrincetonBCF
Princeton Bendheim Center for Finance
4 years
Tomorrow at 12:30 PM ET, Veronica Guerrieri will join us to talk about #COVID19 supply shocks. Register here:
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Ludwig Straub
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... PS: I did end up suggesting to go skiing in the White Mountains to the macro candidate, but it ended up not working with his schedule. Gladly, he accepted our offer and I'm excited to have you around soon, Adrien Bilal from @PrincetonEcon , after a postdoc at @BeckerFriedman !
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Ludwig Straub
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NBER EFG up and running live on youtube:
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Ludwig Straub
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Fascinating piece by @garyseconomics on the likely effects of the Coronavirus recession on debt and inequality. Also found that Gary's website aligns extremely well with my own current thinking, and work with @AtifRMian and @profsufi . Check it out!
@guardian
The Guardian
4 years
I made millions out of the last debt crisis. Now the wealthy stand to win again | Gary Stevenson
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Ludwig Straub
4 years
Nice coverage of our paper by @gavyndavies !
@IvanWerning
Ivan Werning
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The FT’s @gavyndavies writes about our paper in “The deflation threat from the virus will be long lasting” @VeronicaGuerri7 @guido_lorenzoni @ludwigstraub
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Ludwig Straub
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Slight correction to the slight correction 😉 The project is joint with Matt Rognlie & @a_auclert *and* a fantastic graduate student @Stanford , Martin Souchier!
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Ludwig Straub
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Interessanter Thread, @christianbaye13 . mE sind zwei Elastizitäten wichtig. Die intertemporale (wie leicht lässt sich der Energiekonsum einfach auf später verschieben) und die intratemporale (wie leicht lässt sich der Energiekonsum heute mit Konsum anderer Güter substituieren).
@christianbaye13
Christian Bayer
2 years
die genutzt werden können, um, basierend auf vergangenem Konsum, an Haushalte zurückzuverteilen. Dann bleibt Nachfrage im Inland. Was übersehe ich? Ehrliche Frage an den Experten @ludwigstraub CC: @ben_moll @BachmannRudi @econ_stardust @bornecon @RalphLuet
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Ludwig Straub
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@teasri @DominikLeusder @TheStalwart @profsufi @AtifRMian @M_C_Klein @michaelxpettis Here is a simpler version of @teasri 's r - Y plot that we found to describe 'indebted demand' quite well in our work. Basically demand slopes down in debt service cost r * debt. If debt is high, r must fall. Impossible at ZLB, so we get stuck.
@ludwigstraub
Ludwig Straub
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6/N (3) Now imagine debt is so high that interest rates can no longer fall sufficiently, e.g. due to the ZLB (currency union similar). Then the economy enters a persistent state of too little demand. We call this a “debt trap”.
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'The White Mountains?' And immediately he laughed at (& with) me saying '*That* is not where you go skiing my friend! You are *never* going to hire him if you take him skiing there'. His laughter, his jokes, his passion for both econ and life outside econ will be missed soo badly
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Ludwig Straub
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... but the *by far* best part of the entire workshop ... are YOU: We're getting an absolutely amazing group of students together, are going to have tons of fun learning and hanging out! Don't miss our deadline tonight and do let any of us know of you have any questions! 5/5
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Ludwig Straub
2 years
Hands down one of the best run hybrid conferences I've been to, by @jialanw , Scott Baker, and Steve Zeldes. See here for videos + a summary thread:
@jialanw
Jialan Wang
2 years
Quick recap thread of the NBER Household Finance conference on transaction data. 💡 Program: The stream will be live for another 10 days or so - catch it while it lasts! 👇🏽👇🏽
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Ludwig Straub
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@wdiamond_econ @arpitrage @Simon_Mongey How about rising inequality => falling r* + rising asset prices + rising wealth inequality, amplified by nice recent work of @ProfGreenwald , @matteoleombroni , @HannoLustig , @SVNieuwerburgh => bottom 90 borrowed against rising asset prices?
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Ludwig Straub
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@Asilvub @a_auclert @BardoczyBence Thanks so much, Alvaro! It was fantastic to have you there!
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Ludwig Straub
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@serdarozkanEN @AtifRMian @profsufi Thanks Serdar! That's very interesting. As long as ZLB not binding, house prices would actually increase the smaller r* is, thus allowing more borrowing as documented by @MSchularick @kuhnmo . At ZLB, you're exactly right, there house prices fall, worsening the recession!
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Ludwig Straub
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@p_ganong Great Q. Imagine we can "identify" excess savings purely based on deviation from pre Covid trend in net worth by group of households (not just liq. assets). Extreme but let's start there. Then you could see trickling up by movement of excess savings distribution to the rich.
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Ludwig Straub
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@pogourinchas Congratulations Pierre-Olivier (and IMF) !!
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Ludwig Straub
4 years
Great thread!
@paulkrugman
Paul Krugman
4 years
Some people I talk to still seem a bit at sea on the economics of the pandemic, the role of government aid, etc. So a few notes inspired by Guerrieri et al but less technical 1/
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Ludwig Straub
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Then, we learn how to literally *draw* models as DAGs 🤯 See here for two HANK models, one for monetary policy, one for fiscal policy (can you guess which is which?) ... 3/5
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@ludwigstraub
Ludwig Straub
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@MalmbergSelma @a_auclert @BardoczyBence Thank you for the kind words, Selma! It was great to have you there!
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Ludwig Straub
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Ludwig Straub
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@farahtohme @a_auclert @BardoczyBence Thanks so much Farah! So great to have had you join us!
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Ludwig Straub
4 years
@FlorinBilbiie From one of the pioneers of the TANK model, this means a lot to me. THANK you!
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@ludwigstraub
Ludwig Straub
4 years
Must-read thread and paper for anyone interested in household debt!
@kuhnmo
Moritz Kuhn
4 years
The consequences of the #covidcrisis are the macroeconomic topic of the day. Many observers & researchers compare the situation to the global financial crisis of 2008. A key difference is the large rise of household debt & asset prices that pre-dated the financial crisis. 1/17
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Ludwig Straub
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First, we start from scratch: the basic *standard incomplete markets* model. We go through all the tricks you can use to solve this model very quickly ... 2/5
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Ludwig Straub
3 years
@SVNieuwerburgh @PorzioTommaso @Simon_Mongey @wdiamond_econ @arpitrage @ProfGreenwald @matteoleombroni @HannoLustig To reconcile: Our paper focuses on saving. But demographics plausibly has effects on investment as well (e.g. if population growth rate falls), through which it can reduce the natural rate.
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Ludwig Straub
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@HannesMalmberg1 Ha, that's a good question! There is probably a "causal" way of drawing arrows, but then I would have lots of market clearing conditions there that need to be solved out :) The W/P here is basically a solved out labor market clearing condition...
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Ludwig Straub
4 years
@mdoepke @ulbricht_robert Thank you, Matthias! Probably fair to say that without you, neither of us would be where we are today... 🙏
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Ludwig Straub
2 years
@janschymik Great Q. Not in the paper. Whether there is a difference pandemic vs not comes down to whether MPCs are different during pandemic vs not, and whether monetary response is different. MPC evidence seems similar, but monetary response may have been stronger outside pandemic.
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Ludwig Straub
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Ludwig Straub
4 years
Just this past job market season, we made an offer to a brilliant young macroeconomist. In the hallway, we debated over how to make his second visit more exciting. Being an incompetent but eager skier myself, I floated the idea of taking him for day trip to go skiing...
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Ludwig Straub
2 years
@bernacerprize Congratulations Matteo!!
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Ludwig Straub
4 years
... because, why not ?? Alberto must have heard, since at that moment he came zooming out of his office, asking me in a half-surprised half-joking kind of way: 'Where would you take him skiing around here??' I should have known what was about to come but naively I just replied..
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@ludwigstraub
Ludwig Straub
4 years
Very important thread on sustainability of US government debt.
@ProfJAParker
Jonathan A. Parker
4 years
(1/N) How bad is the US debt and deficit situation? A Serious Question for Twitter by @ProfJAParker MIT and NBER Abstract: Debt and deficits are huge and the Fed is hiding funding costs. Is the US already unable to finance itself?
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Ludwig Straub
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Ludwig Straub
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@ben_moll Much deserved!! Congratulations, Ben!
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Ludwig Straub
2 years
@SakiBigio Great Q. I haven't done the math here but my sense is if the increased stimulus was totally inflated away already, debt / GDP should effectively be back to pre-Covid levels. It has declined recently but not that much yet. So from that angle, real excess savings still seem > 0.
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Ludwig Straub
2 years
Grob gesprochen, wenn intertemporal > intratemporal ist, wird Nachfrage im Schnitt in die Zukunft verschoben. (Caveat: Mit Einkommenseffekten kann sich das etwas verschieben.)
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Ludwig Straub
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We use the DAGs to code up models, just like building LEGOs: first get all our "blocks" done, then connect them! We do this in *hands-on* live-coding tutorials, e.g. here examples on fiscal & monetary policy in closed economies. We also do open economy & discrete choice... 4/5
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