Moll, Benjamin

Number of items: 32.
Article
  • Maxted, Peter, Laibson, David, Moll, Ben (2025). A simple framework for MPCs and MPXs. Journal of Finance: Insights and Perspectives, [In Press] picture_as_pdf
  • Fagereng, Andreas, Gomez, Matthieu, Gouin-Bonenfant, Emilien, Holm, Martin, Moll, Benjamin, Natvik, Gisle (2025). Asset-price redistribution. Journal of Political Economy, 133(11), 3494 - 3549. https://doi.org/10.1086/736769 picture_as_pdf
  • Moll, Ben (2025). The trouble with rational expectations in heterogeneous agent models: a challenge for macroeconomics. The Economic Journal, https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueaf104 [In Press] picture_as_pdf
  • Maxted, Peter, Laibson, David, Moll, Ben (2025). Present bias amplifies the household balance-sheet channels of macroeconomic policy. Quarterly Journal of Economics, 140(1), 691 - 743. https://doi.org/10.1093/qje/qjae026 picture_as_pdf
  • Bachmann, Rüdiger, Baqaee, David Rezza, Bayer, Christian, Kuhn, Moritz, Löschel, Andreas, Moll, Ben, Peichl, Andreas, Pittel, Karen, Schularick, Moritz (2024). What if? The macroeconomic and distributional effects for Germany of a stop of energy imports from Russia. Economica, 91(364), 1157 - 1200. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecca.12546 picture_as_pdf
  • Moll, Ben, Schularick, Moritz, Zachmann, Georg (2023). The power of substitution: the great German gas debate in retrospect. Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, picture_as_pdf
  • Moll, Ben (2023). Comment on Bartscher, Kuhn, Schularick and Wachtel (2022) “Monetary policy and racial inequality”. Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, https://doi.org/10.1353/eca.2022.0018 picture_as_pdf
  • Moll, Benjamin, Rachel, Lukasz, Restrepo, Pascual (2022). Uneven growth: automation's impact on income and wealth inequality. Econometrica, 90(6), 2645-2683. https://doi.org/10.3982/ECTA19417
  • Moll, Ben (2022). Volle Speicher reichen nicht die Fixierung auf die Speicherfüllstände verstellt den Blick auf das Wesentliche: weniger Gas zu verbrauchen. Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, 23(3), 134 - 138. https://doi.org/10.1515/pwp-2022-0037 picture_as_pdf
  • Achdou, Yves, Han, Jiequn, Lasry, Jean Michel, Lions, Pierre Louis, Moll, Ben (2022). Income and wealth distribution in macroeconomics: a continuous-time approach. Review of Economic Studies, 89(1), 45 - 86. https://doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdab002 picture_as_pdf
  • Alves, Felipe, Kaplan, Greg, Moll, Ben, Violente, Gianluca (2020). A further look at the propagation of monetary policy shocks in HANK. Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 52(S2), 521 - 559. https://doi.org/10.1111/jmcb.12761 picture_as_pdf
  • Moll, Ben (2020). Comment on Hubmer, Krusell & Smith “Sources of U.S. wealth inequality: past, present, and future”. NBER Macroeconomics Annual, 35, 469-479. https://doi.org/10.1086/712334 [In Press] picture_as_pdf
  • Moll, Ben (2020). Comment on “Sources of U.S. wealth inequality past, present, and future”. NBER Macroeconomics Annual, [In Press] picture_as_pdf
  • Itskhoki, Oleg, Moll, Benjamin (2019). Optimal development policies with financial frictions. Econometrica, 87(1), 139 - 173. https://doi.org/10.3982/ECTA13761
  • Lagakos, David, Moll, Benjamin, Porzio, Tommaso, Qian, Nancy, Schoellman, Todd (2018). Life-cycle human capital accumulation across countries: lessons from US immigrants. Journal of Human Capital, 12(2), 305 - 342. https://doi.org/10.1086/697245
  • Lagakos, David, Moll, Benjamin, Porzio, Tommaso, Qian, Nancy, Schoellman, Todd (2018). Life cycle wage growth across countries. Journal of Political Economy, 126(2), 797 - 849. https://doi.org/10.1086/696225
  • Nuño, Galo, Moll, Benjamin (2018). Social optima in economies with heterogeneous agents. Review of Economic Dynamics, 28, 150 - 180. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.red.2017.08.003
  • Kaplan, Greg, Moll, Benjamin, Violante, Giovanni L. (2018). Monetary policy according to HANK. American Economic Review, 108(3), 697 - 743. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20160042
  • Moll, Benjamin, Townsend, Robert M., Zhorin, Victor (2017). Economic development, flow of funds, and the equilibrium interaction of financial frictions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 114(24), 6176 - 6184. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1707055114
  • Ahn, Se Hyoun, Kaplan, Greg, Moll, Benjamin, Winberry, Thomas, Wolf, Christian (2017). When inequality matters for macro and macro matters for inequality. NBER Macroeconomics Annual, 32(1), 1 - 75. https://doi.org/10.1086/696046
  • Gabaix, Xavier, Lasry, Jean Michel, Lions, Pierre Louis, Moll, Benjamin (2016). The dynamics of inequality. Econometrica, 84(6), 2071 - 2111. https://doi.org/10.3982/ECTA13569
  • Buera, Francisco J., Moll, Benjamin (2015). Aggregate implications of a credit crunch: the importance of heterogeneity. American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 7(3), 1 - 42. https://doi.org/10.1257/mac.20130212
  • Achdou, Yves, Buera, Francisco J., Lasry, Jean Michel, Lions, Pierre Louis, Moll, Benjamin (2014). Partial differential equation models in macroeconomics. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 372(2028). https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2013.0397
  • Moll, Benjamin (2014). Productivity losses from financial frictions can self-financing undo capital misallocation? American Economic Review, 104(10), 3186 - 3221. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.104.10.3186
  • Lucas, Robert E., Moll, Benjamin (2014). Knowledge growth and the allocation of time. Journal of Political Economy, 122(1), 1 - 51. https://doi.org/10.1086/674363
  • Buera, Francisco J., Moll, Benjamin, Shin, Yongseok (2013). Well-intended policies. Review of Economic Dynamics, 16(1), 216 - 230. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.red.2012.10.008
  • Banerjee, Abhijit V., Moll, Benjamin (2010). Why does misallocation persist? American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2(1), 189 - 206. https://doi.org/10.1257/mac.2.1.189
    • Dataset
  • Moll, Benjamin, Fagereng, Andreas, Gomez, Matthieu, Gouin-Bonenfant, Emilien, Holm, Martin, Natvik, Gisle (2024). Replication Data for: Asset-Price Redistribution. [Dataset]. Harvard Dataverse. https://doi.org/10.7910/dvn/tjd0vi
  • Moll, Benjamin, Maxted, Peter, Laibson, David (2024). Replication Data for: 'Present Bias Amplifies the Household Balance-Sheet Channels of Macroeconomic Policy'. [Dataset]. Harvard Dataverse. https://doi.org/10.7910/dvn/b5mts0
  • Moll, Benjamin, Achdou, Yves, Han, Jiequn, Lasry, Jean-Michel, Lions, Pierre-Louis (2020). Replication package for: Income and Wealth Distribution in Macroeconomics: A Continuous-Time Approach. [Dataset]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4301977
    • Working paper
  • Achdou, Yves, Han, Jiequn, Lasry, Jean Michel, Lions, Pierre Louis, Moll, Benjamin (2017). Income and wealth distribution in macroeconomics: a continuous-time approach. (NBER Working Paper 23732). National Bureau of Economic Research. https://doi.org/10.3386/w23732
    • Blog post
  • Moll, Ben (23 March 2022) What if Germany is cut off from Russian oil and gas? LSE Business Review. picture_as_pdf