In models with heterogeneous agents, issues of distribution and redistribution jump to the fore, raising the question: Which policies-monetary or fiscal-work most effectively in transferring income between groups? From Townsend's turnpike model, two basic results emerge to help answer this...

This article studies the behavior of the economy and the efficacy of monetary policy under zero nominal interest rates using a model with population growth that nests, as a special case, the conventional specification in which there is a single infinitely lived representative agent. The article...