Excessive heat and cold weather waves may affect economic activity through energy markets. Yet, if a clear distinction of those events from other sources of variation in the economy would help central banks in stabilizing inflation is a research question that lacks theoretical and empirical...

This paper extends the standard New Keynesian dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model to agents who cannot smooth consumption (i.e. spenders) and are affected by external consumption habits. Although these assumptions are not new, their joint consideration strongly affects some...