Carroll, Chris; Slacalek, Jirka; Tokuoka, Kiichi; … - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 8 (2017) 3, pp. 977-1020
degree of heterogeneity in household preferences or beliefs is sufficient to match empirical measures of wealth inequality in … the United States. The heterogeneity-augmented model’s predictions are consistent with microeconomic evidence that … macroeconomic models (even ones including some heterogeneity). The high MPC arises because many consumers hold little wealth despite …