Financial frictions and the wealth distribution

J Fernández‐Villaverde, S Hurtado, G Nuno - Econometrica, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We postulate a continuous‐time heterogeneous agent model with a financial sector and
households to study the nonlinear linkages between aggregate and financial variables. In …

Taming the curse of dimensionality: quantitative economics with deep learning

J Fernández-Villaverde, G Nuño, J Perla - 2024 - nber.org
We argue that deep learning provides a promising avenue for taming the curse of
dimensionality in quantitative economics. We begin by exploring the unique challenges …

Ricardian business cycles

L Bretscher, J Fernández-Villaverde… - Swiss Finance Institute …, 2022 - papers.ssrn.com
This paper presents a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model of Ricardian business
cycles. Our model is Ricardian because countries (or, equivalently, regions) trade to take …

Sparse grids for dynamic economic models

J Brumm, C Krause, A Schaab… - Available at SSRN …, 2021 - papers.ssrn.com
Solving dynamic economic models that capture salient real-world heterogeneity and non-
linearity requires the approximation of high-dimensional functions. As their dimensionality …

Self-justified equilibria: Existence and computation

F Kubler, S Scheidegger - Available at SSRN 3494876, 2019 - papers.ssrn.com
This paper introduces the concept of``self-justified equilibria" as a tractable alternative to
rational expectations equilibria in stochastic general equilibrium models with heterogeneous …

Essays on Machine Learning approaches to Macroeconomic Modeling

M Ciganovic - 2024 - iris.uniroma1.it
The thesis is an in-depth examination of the potential of machine learning and artificial
intelligence techniques to improve the accuracy of macroeconomic forecasting and real-time …