We investigate the link between housing wealth concentration and the macroeconomic effects of a rise in domestic banks' exposure to sovereign securities. We build a general equilibrium model with housing and heterogeneous agents who differ in their investment opportunities. Banks, optimizing...

We incorporate age-specific socio-economic interactions in a SIR macroeconomic model to study the role of demographic factors for the COVID-19 epidemic evolution, its macroeconomic outcomes and possible containment measures. Our framework captures the endogenous response of rational individuals...