Materials

Econ-ARK materials are categorized under the following types:

• Demonstrations: Jupyter Notebooks demonstrating usage of HARK
• REMARKs: Replications or Reproductions (of results from papers); focused explorations of topics
• Instructional: Notebooks constructed for teaching purposes, including problem sets
• Presentations: Notebooks and non-notebook content from presentations given related to HARK/Econ-ARK

The following list of links filter and update content in the table below.

• Alternative-Combos-Of-Parameter-Values

  Authors: Christopher Carroll

  Alternative Combinations of Parameter Values

  • Assignment
  • Notebook
  • Demonstration

• BlanchardPA2019

  Authors: Christopher Carroll

  Public Debt and Low Interest Rates

  • Replication

• BufferStockTheory

  Authors: Christopher D. Carroll

  Theoretical Foundations of Buffer Stock Saving

  • Reproduction

• Change Liq Constr

  Authors: Christopher Carroll

  What Happens To the Consumption Function When A Liquidity Constraint is Tightened?

  • Notebook
  • Demonstration

• ConsPortfolioModelDoc

  Authors: Christopher Carroll

  ConsPortfolioModel Documentation

  • Notebook
  • Demonstration

• DCEGM-Upper-Envelope

  Authors: Christopher Carroll

  DCEGM Upper Envelope

  • Notebook
  • Demonstration

• DiamondOLG

  Authors: Christopher Carroll

  The Diamond OLG Model

  • Notebook
  • Demonstration

• FisherTwoPeriod

  Authors: Christopher Carroll

  The Fisher Two-Period Optimal Consumption Problem

  • Notebook
  • Demonstration

• GanongNoelUI

  Authors: Christopher Carroll

  Analysis of Models for "Consumer Spending During Unemployment: Positive and Normative Implications"

  • Replication

• GenIncProcessModel

  Authors: Christopher Carroll

  Permanent versus Persistent Income Shocks

  • Notebook
  • Demonstration

• Gentle-Intro-To-HARK-Buffer-Stock-Model

  Authors: Christopher Carroll

  A Gentle Introduction to Buffer Stock Saving

  • Notebook
  • Demonstration

• Gentle-Intro-To-HARK-PerfForesightCRRA

  Authors: Christopher Carroll

  A Gentle Introduction to HARK In Perfect Foresight

  • Notebook
  • Demonstration

• Gentle-Intro-To-HARK

  Authors: Christopher Carroll

  A Gentle Introduction to HARK

  • Notebook
  • Demonstration

• HoweWeSolveIndShockConsumerType

  Authors: Christopher Carroll

  How we solve a model defined by the IndShockConsumerType class

  • Notebook
  • Demonstration

• IncExpectationExample

  Authors: Christopher Carroll

  The Persistent Shock Model and Income Expectations

  • Notebook
  • Demonstration

• IncExpectationExample_Roszypal-Schlafmann

  Authors: Christopher Carroll

  • Notebook
  • Demonstration

• IndShockConsumerType

  Authors: Christopher Carroll

  IndShockConsumerType Documentation

  • Notebook
  • Demonstration

• KeynesFriedmanModigliani

  Authors: Christopher Carroll

  Introduction: Keynes, Friedman, Modigliani

  • Notebook
  • Demonstration

• KinkedRconsumerType

  Authors: Christopher Carroll

  KinkedRconsumerType: Consumption-saving model with idiosyncratic income shocks and different interest rates on borrowing and saving

  • Notebook
  • Demonstration

• KrusellSmith

  Authors: Christopher Carroll

  This is a Replication of Krusell and Smith, 1998.

  • Replication

• LifecycleModelExample

  Authors: Christopher Carroll

  The Distribution of Assets By Age

  • Notebook
  • Demonstration

• LiqConstr

  Authors:

  • Reproduction
  • REMARK/Reproduction

• MPC-Out-of-Credit-vs-MPC-Out-of-Income

  Authors: Christopher Carroll

  The MPC out of Credit vs the MPC Out of Income

  • Notebook
  • Demonstration

• Micro-and-Macro-Implications-of-Very-Impatient-HHs

  Authors: Christopher Carroll

  Micro- and Macroeconomic Implications of Very Impatient Households

  • Notebook
  • Demonstration

• Nondurables-During-Great-Recession

  Authors: Christopher Carroll

  Spending on Nondurables During the Great Recession

  • Notebook
  • Demonstration

• Pandemic - Consumption Response

  Authors: Christopher D. Carroll Edmund Crawley Jiri Slacalek Matthew N. White

  Analysis of the household consumption response to the Covid-19 crisis and the CAREs Act response

  • Notebook

• PerfForesightCRRA-Impatience-Questions

  Authors: Christopher Carroll

  Examine consequences as impatience conditions fail

  • Assignment
  • Notebook

• PerfForesightConsumerType

  Authors: Christopher Carroll

  PerfForesightConsumerType

  • Notebook
  • Demonstration

• PortfolioChoiceBlogPost

  Authors: Christopher Carroll

  Optimal Financial Investment over the Life Cycle

  • Replication
  • Notebook
  • Blog

• SolvingMicroDSOPs

  Authors: Christopher Carroll

  SolvingMicroDSOPs Is an Exploration of Indirect Inference for a Life Cycle Model

  • Replication

• Structural-Estimates-From-Empirical-MPCs-Fagereng-et-al

  Authors: Christopher Carroll

  Making Structural Estimates From Empirical Results

  • Notebook
  • Demonstration

• TractableBufferStockQuickDemo

  Authors: Christopher Carroll

  The Tractable Buffer Stock Model

  • Notebook
  • Demonstration

• Uncertainty-and-the-Saving-Rate

  Authors: Christopher Carroll

  Uncertainty and Saving in Partial Equilibrium

  • Notebook
  • Demonstration

• cAndCwithStickyE

  Authors: Christopher Carroll

  cAndCwithStickyE is a Reproduction

  • Replication

• Chinese Growth

  Authors: Christopher Carroll

  Do Precautionary Motives Explain China's High Saving Rate?

  • Notebook
  • Demonstration

• cstwMPC-RHetero

  Authors: Christopher Carroll

  This is a reproduction of the results in the paper "Can Persistent Unobserved Heterogeneity in Returns-to-Wealth Explain Wealth Inequality" by Derin Aksit.

  • Replication

• cstwMPC

  Authors: Christopher Carroll

  cstwMPC is a Replication of the results in

  • Replication

• ctDiscrete

  Authors: Christopher Carroll

  This is a replication of the results of the paper "A Tractable Model of Buffer Stock Saving" by Carroll and Toche

  • Replication