FEDS Paper: Household Consumption Does Not Respond Directly to Interest Rates: Evidence From 10 Macroeconomic Shocks(Revised)
Edmund Crawley and William L. GamberWe estimate how much household spending responds directly to changes in interest rates. We develop a Bayesian procedure that uses the empirical impulse responses to macroeconomic shocks to discipline the consumer block of a HANK model. The procedure can be applied shock-by-shock or pooled jointly.