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Consumption Dynamics under Information Frictions

2025

A rational expectations model with information frictions that generates hump-shaped consumption responses consistent with macro evidence and high MPCs in micro data.

Recommended citation: Overhage, J. (2025). "Consumption Dynamics under Information Frictions".

Monopsony Power and Creative Destruction (joint with Isabella Maassen and Filip Mellgren)

American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics 2026

This paper explores the trade-off between static efficiency and growth in monopsonistic labor markets using a tractable endogenous growth model with heterogeneous firms.

Recommended citation: Maassen, I., Mellgren, F., Overhage, J. (2026). "Monopsony Power and Creative Destruction", R&R, American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics. http://JOverhage.github.io/files/MMO_Monopsony_Jan26.pdf

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