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TANK Model

Two-agent New Keynesian structure that separates hand-to-mouth from asset-holding households.

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    Campbell and Mankiw (1989) -- Consumption, Income, and Interest Rates: Reinterpreting the Time Series Evidence. Empirical origin of the rule-of-thumb consumer idea.

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    Gali, Lopez-Salido, and Valles (2007) -- Understanding the Effects of Government Spending on Consumption. First DSGE embedding of rule-of-thumb consumers in an NK framework.

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    Bilbiie (2008) -- Limited Asset Market Participation, Monetary Policy, and (Inverted) Aggregate Demand Logic. Analytical TANK with the inverted demand result.

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    Debortoli and Gali (2018) -- Monetary Policy with Heterogeneous Agents: Insights from TANK. Showed TANK approximates HANK aggregate dynamics well for many shocks.

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  5. [S5] Reference

    Bilbiie (2020) -- The New Keynesian Cross. Discounted Euler equation framework bridging TANK and HANK analytics.

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  6. [S6] Reference

    Kaplan, Moll, and Violante (2018) -- Monetary Policy According to HANK. The full heterogeneous-agent benchmark against which TANK is evaluated.

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