Workers, capitalists, and the government: fiscal policy and income (re)distribution
构建了一个双代理人新凯恩斯模型，研究财政政策与家庭异质性的互动，发现模型能拟合微观消费数据，且财政乘数较小但再分配效应显著。
We propose a novel two-agent New Keynesian model to study the interaction of fiscal policy and household heterogeneity in a tractable environment. Workers can save in bonds subject to portfolio adjustment costs; firm ownership is concentrated among capitalists who do not supply labor. The model is consistent with micro data on empirical intertemporal marginal propensities to consume, and it avoids implausible profit income effects on labor supply. Relative to the traditional two-agent model, these features imply, respectively, a lower sensitivity of consumption to the composition of public financing; and smaller fiscal multipliers alongside pronounced redistributive effects.