The purpose of this paper is to contribute to a further understanding of the impact of monetary policy shocks on a financial network, which we dub the “financial network channel of monetary policy transmission”. To this aim, we develop an agent-based model (ABM) in which banks extend loans...

In this paper we present a macroeconomic microfounded framework with heterogeneous agents -- households, firms, banks -- which interact through a decentralized matching process presenting common features across four markets -- goods, labor, credit and deposit. We study the dynamics of the model...

We study how income inequality affects monetary policy through the inequality-household debt channel. We design a minimal macro Agent-Based model that replicates several stylized facts, including two novel ones: falling aggregate saving rate and decreasing bankruptcies during the household's...

We study how income inequality affects monetary policy through the inequality-household debt channel. We design a minimal macro Agent-Based model that replicates several stylized facts, including two novel ones: falling aggregate saving rate and decreasing bankruptcies during the household's...