Ralph Luetticke is an Assistant Professor of Economics at UCL and affiliated with CEPR and CfM.
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PhD in Economics, 2016
University of Bonn, Germany
MSc in Economics, 2014
University of Bonn, Germany
BSc in International Economics, 2010
University of Maastricht, The Netherlands
The following lecture is a short-course on how to use perturbation methods to solve heterogeneous agent models.
You can find the codes to implement this on GitHub:
Comparison of Perturbation vs MIT shock solution for Krusell-Smith model (Matlab) https://github.com/ralphluet/KS_Perturbation_vs_MIT
Perturbation solution with our reduction method for Krusell-Smith and HANK models (Matlab) https://github.com/ralphluet/perturbation_codes
Perturbation solution with our reduction method for HANK models (Python) https://github.com/econ-ark/BayerLuetticke
Perturbation solution with our reduction method for estimating HANK models (Julia) https://github.com/BenjaminBorn/HANK_BusinessCycleAndInequality
We use the Survey of Income and Program Participation to estimate a household income process with time-varying variance of persistent income shocks (1980-2012). See Bayer, Luetticke, Pham-Dao, Tjaden (2019) for details.
Our structural model in Bayer, Born, Luetticke (2020) allows us to generate a quarterly time series for US inequality from 1954-2019. The model replicates the annual observations on the US top 10% wealth and income shares from the World Inequality Database, and we can use the Kalman smoother to create a quarterly time series (done with the HANKXPlus model).
Annual and quarterly measure of tax progressivity in the US, 1954-2019. In Bayer, Born, Luetticke (2020) we first extend the Mertens and Montiel Olea (2018)-calculations of average (ATR) and average marginal tax rates (AMTR) to the years 2013-2017 and with these calculate tax progressivity as in Ferriere and Navarro (2018) using the average and average marginal tax rate: P = (AMTR - ATR)/(1 - ATR). This provides us with annual observations for the estimation of our HANK model, and we can use the Kalman smoother to create a quarterly time series (done with the HANKXPlus model).
Replication code: https://github.com/ralphluet/Tax-Progressivity-Construction
Macroeconomics and Computational Methods at all levels.
I supervise theses in the area of macroeconomics. To apply for supervision, please email me an up-to-date transcript, a short CV, and a rough description of what you are interested in.