We develop a framework to explore the equilibrium implications of socially responsible investments (SRI). Investors acquire positions in ex-ante identical firms, and firms compete in selling products to consumers. A fraction of investors and consumers are socially responsible in that they value...

This article studies the equivalence between labor and consumption taxes in a stochastic context, where the government can undertake an active portfolio management strategy by investing in both risk-free and risky assets. Using a two-period model we show that such taxes let consumers make the...

Evidence on the portfolio holdings and transaction patterns of households suggests that the burden of inflation is not evenly distributed. We build a monetary growth model consistent with key features of cross-sectional household data and use this framework to study the distributional impact of...

This short note is to show that the strong non-superneutrality of monetary policy in Brunnermeier and Sannikov (2016) does not hold if taking into account the pecuniary externality of capital. Higher money growth rate leads to a higher level of capital but not higher growth rate of the economy...