A comparison of models and results from selected papers on personal bankruptcy establishes how particular modeling assumptions matter for the implications of bankruptcy. For example, it can be argued that only under income processes that allow for large shocks to net worth can bankruptcy play a...

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Modern Macroeconomic Approach and the Arrow-Debreu-McKenzie Model -- 2 Prices, Efficiency, and Macroeconomics -- 3 Macroeconomists, Efficiency, and Inequality -- 4 Macroeconomic Shortcuts -- 5 Benchmark Macroeconomic Models and Policy...