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on Dynamic General Equilibrium |
Issue of 2005‒12‒01
73 papers chosen by |
By: | Federico Ravenna |
Keywords: | Vector Autoreregression; Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium Model; Kalman Filter; Business Cycle Shocks |
JEL: | C13 C22 E32 |
Date: | 2005 |
URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:red:sed005:841&r=dge |
By: | Julen Esteban-Pretel (Economics University of Tokyo); Elisa Faraglia |
Keywords: | Search and Matching, Loss of Skill, Business Cycles, Monetary Policy |
JEL: | J41 J31 E32 |
Date: | 2005 |
URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:red:sed005:328&r=dge |
By: | Thomas A. Lubik; Michael U. Krause (CentER and Department of Economics Tilburg University) |
Keywords: | job-to-job mobility, propagation, business cycle, worker flows, seach and matching |
JEL: | E24 E32 J64 |
Date: | 2005 |
URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:red:sed005:792&r=dge |
By: | Miana Plesca (Economics University of Guelph) |
Keywords: | program evaluation; general equilibrium; job search; matching |
JEL: | J64 J68 J38 |
Date: | 2005 |
URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:red:sed005:499&r=dge |
By: | Sven Rady; Francois Ortalo-Magne |
Keywords: | Housing Markets, Dynamic Sorting, Tenure Choice |
JEL: | R23 |
Date: | 2005 |
URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:red:sed005:113&r=dge |
By: | Filippo Occhino; John Landon-Lane (Economics Rutgers University) |
Keywords: | limited participation, segmented markets, Bayesian model comparison, monetary policy shocks. |
JEL: | C11 C52 E52 |
Date: | 2005 |
URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:red:sed005:116&r=dge |
By: | Christopher Waller; Aleksander Berentsen (Economics University of Basel) |
Keywords: | Financial Intermediation, Aggregate Shocks, Monetary Policy |
Date: | 2005 |
URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:red:sed005:416&r=dge |
By: | Sagiri Kitao (Economics NYU) |
Keywords: | Income Taxation, Entrepreneurs, Dynamic General Equilibrium, Heterogeneous Agents |
JEL: | E1 E6 H2 H3 |
Date: | 2005 |
URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:red:sed005:514&r=dge |
By: | Marco Cagetti; Mariacristina De Nardi |
Abstract: | In the United States wealth is highly concentrated and very unequally distributed: the richest 1% hold one third of the total wealth in the economy. Understanding the determinants of wealth inequality is a challenge for many economic models. We summarize some key facts about the wealth distribution and what economic models have been able to explain so far. |
Keywords: | Wealth |
Date: | 2005 |
URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:fip:fedhwp:wp-05-10&r=dge |
By: | Manuel Toledo (Economics University of Rochester); Jose I. Silva |
Keywords: | Labor Markets, Search, Matching, Insider-Outsider, Turnover Costs, Business Cycles |
JEL: | J63 J64 J41 E32 |
Date: | 2005 |
URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:red:sed005:775&r=dge |
By: | V. Sanchez-Marcos; J.V.Rios-Rull (Economics Universidad de Cantabria) |
Keywords: | housing prices, frictions,aggregate shocks |
JEL: | E3 |
Date: | 2005 |
URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:red:sed005:648&r=dge |
By: | Onur Ozgur (Economics New York University) |
Keywords: | Credit Rationing, Investment Cycles, Limited Enforceability, Liquidity Provision, Resource Constraints |
JEL: | C6 C7 D9 G2 |
Date: | 2005 |
URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:red:sed005:251&r=dge |
By: | Ana Balcao Reis; Joao Ejarque (Economics University of Essex) |
Keywords: | Endogenous Growth, Technology Shocks, Investment Shocks. |
JEL: | E21 E32 O40 |
Date: | 2005 |
URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:red:sed005:312&r=dge |
By: | Conny Olovsson (Department of Economics Stockholm School of Economics) |
Keywords: | Social Security, risk sharing |
JEL: | E21 H21 H55 |
Date: | 2005 |
URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:red:sed005:584&r=dge |
By: | Christopher Waller; Guillaume Rocheteau (Department of Economics University of Notre Dame) |
Keywords: | Money, Search, Bargaining, Inflation |
JEL: | E40 E50 |
Date: | 2005 |
URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:red:sed005:55&r=dge |
By: | Leena Rudanko |
Keywords: | Search, Matching, Wage Contracts, Business Cycles |
JEL: | E24 E32 J41 J63 |
Date: | 2005 |
URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:red:sed005:876&r=dge |
By: | Pieter Gautier; Coen Teulings (SEO University of Amsterdam) |
Keywords: | wages, search, assignment |
JEL: | J21 J30 J60 |
Date: | 2005 |
URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:red:sed005:175&r=dge |
By: | Karl Schmedders (MEDS Kellogg School of Management) |
Date: | 2005 |
URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:red:sed005:148&r=dge |
By: | Eran Yashiv |
Keywords: | aggregate labor market, aggregate fluctuations, labor market flows, search, matching, vacancies. |
JEL: | E24 E32 |
Date: | 2005 |
URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:red:sed005:360&r=dge |
By: | Michael R. Pakko; William T. Gavin (Research Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis); Finn E. Kydland |
Keywords: | Inflation, Taxation, Business Cycle |
JEL: | E31 E32 E42 |
Date: | 2005 |
URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:red:sed005:265&r=dge |
By: | Burcu Duygan |
Keywords: | uncertainty, durable goods spending, unemployment, financial crisis |
JEL: | D1 D8 D9 E2 |
Date: | 2005 |
URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:red:sed005:594&r=dge |
By: | Martin Gervais; Paul Klein |
Keywords: | Risk Sharing; Income Risk; Consumption Risk; Projection |
JEL: | C13 C8 D12 E21 |
Date: | 2005 |
URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:red:sed005:323&r=dge |
By: | Patrick Francois (University of British Columbia); Huw Lloyd- Ellis (Queen's University) |
Abstract: | We develop a model of 'intrinsic' business cycles, driven by the decentralized behaviour of entrepreneurs and firms making continuous, divisible improvements in their productivity. We show how equilibrium cycles, associated with strategic delays in implementation and endogenous innovation, arise even in the presence of reversible investment. We derive the implications for the cyclical evolution of both tangible (physical) and intangible (knowledge) capital. In particular, our framework is consistent with key aspects of the somewhat puzzling relationship between fixed capital formation and the stockmarket at business cycle frequencies. |
Keywords: | Tobin's Q, fixed capital formation, intangible investment, cycles and growth |
JEL: | E |
Date: | 2005–11–22 |
URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wpa:wuwpma:0511023&r=dge |
By: | Andrey Launov; Christian Holzner (Social Policy and Labor Markets IFOInstitute for Economic Research) |
Keywords: | Search, wage correlation, social returns to education |
JEL: | J21 J23 J64 |
Date: | 2005 |
URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:red:sed005:604&r=dge |
By: | Juan Carlos Cordoba (Economics Rice University) |
Keywords: | Idiosyncratic Risk, Incomplete Markets, Borrowing Constraints, Wealth |
JEL: | E2 E44 G22 D |
Date: | 2005 |
URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:red:sed005:235&r=dge |
By: | Boyan Jovanovic |
Keywords: | Technology, Development, Patents |
JEL: | E F |
Date: | 2005 |
URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:red:sed005:199&r=dge |
By: | Jinhui H. Bai (Department of Economics, Yale University); Ingolf Schwarz (Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods) |
Abstract: | The general equilibrium model with incomplete financial markets (GEI) is extended by adding fiat money, fiscal and monetary policy and a cash-in-advance constraint. The central bank either pegs the interest rate or money supply while the fiscal authority sets a Ricardian or a non-Ricardian fiscal plan. We prove the existence of equilibria in all four scenarios. In Ricardian economies, the conditions required for existence are not more restrictive than in standard GEI. In non-Ricardian economies, the sufficient conditions for existence are more demanding. In the Ricardian economy, neither the price level nor the equivalent martingale measure are determinate. |
Keywords: | Money, incomplete markets, fiscal policy, indeterminacy |
JEL: | D52 E40 E50 |
Date: | 2005–09 |
URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:jep:wpaper:05005&r=dge |
By: | Tom Krebs (Dept of Economics Brown University) |
Date: | 2005 |
URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:red:sed005:188&r=dge |
By: | Roger E. A. Farmer |
Keywords: | Unemployment Real Business Cycles |
Date: | 2005 |
URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:red:sed005:26&r=dge |
By: | Matteo Iacoviello (Economics Boston College) |
Keywords: | Debt, durables, volatility, borrowing constraints, housing |
JEL: | E21 E32 E44 |
Date: | 2005 |
URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:red:sed005:186&r=dge |
By: | Wouter J. Denhaan (Economics Subject Area London School of Economics); Georg Kaltenbrunner |
Keywords: | labor matching market; |
JEL: | E32 J41 |
Date: | 2005 |
URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:red:sed005:29&r=dge |
By: | Eran Yashiv |
Abstract: | Does the search and matching model fit aggregate U.S. labor market data? While the modelhas become an important tool of macroeconomic analysis, recent literature pointed to somefailures in accounting for the data. This paper aims to answer two questions: (i) Does themodel fit the data, and, if so, on what dimensions? (ii) Does the data "fit" the model, i.e. whatare the data which are relevant to be explained by the model? The analysis shows that themodel does fit certain specifications of the data on many dimensions, though not on all. Thisincludes capturing the high persistence and high volatility of most of the key variables, aswell as the negative co-variation of unemployment and vacancies. It offers a workable,empirically-grounded version of the model for the analysis of aggregate U.S. labor marketdynamics. The paper provides macroeconomists guidance concerning the relevant "buildingblock" for modelling the labor market, both in terms of the model and in terms of the data. |
Keywords: | search, matching, U.S. labor market, vacancies, labor market flows, business cycles. |
JEL: | E24 E32 J32 J63 |
Date: | 2005–02 |
URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cep:cepdps:dp0677&r=dge |
By: | Giovanni Lombardo; Alan Sutherland |
Abstract: | This paper shows how to compute a second-order accurate solution of a non-linear rational expectation model using algorithms developed for the solution of linear rational expectation models. This result is a state-space representation for the realized values of the variables of the model. This state-space representation can easily be used to compute impulse responses as well as conditional and unconditional forecasts. |
Keywords: | Second-order approximation; solution method for rational expectation models. |
JEL: | E63 E0 |
Date: | 2005–03 |
URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:san:cdmacp:0504&r=dge |
By: | Marja-Liisa Halko; Klaus Kultti; Juha Virrankoski (Department of Economics University of Helsinki) |
Keywords: | wage distribution, job search, auctions |
JEL: | J64 J31 J41 |
Date: | 2005 |
URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:red:sed005:518&r=dge |
By: | Jonathan Heathcote (Department of Economics New York University); Kjetil Storesletten |
Keywords: | Insurance, Labor supply, Productivity, Wage dispersion, Welfare. |
JEL: | D31 D58 D91 |
Date: | 2005 |
URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:red:sed005:107&r=dge |
By: | Gianluca Violante; Giovanni Gallipoli (Economics University College London); Costas Meghir |
Keywords: | Education, Inequality, Equilibrium, Policy |
JEL: | J20 J24 E20 E60 |
Date: | 2005 |
URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:red:sed005:522&r=dge |
By: | James Costain (Economics Universidad Carlos III de Madrid); Michael Reiter |
JEL: | E32 E62 H21 |
Date: | 2005 |
URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:red:sed005:704&r=dge |
By: | Marco Cagetti; Mariacristina De Nardi |
Abstract: | Although the role of financial constraints on entrepreneurial choices has received considerable attention, the effects of these constraints on aggregate capital accumulation and wealth inequality are less known. Entrepreneurship is an important determinant of capital accumulation and wealth concentration and, conversely, the distribution of wealth affects entrepreneurial choices in presence of borrowing constraints. We construct a model that matches wealth inequality very well, for both entrepreneurs and non- entrepreneurs. We find that more restrictive borrowing constraints generate less wealth concentration, but also reduce average firm size, aggregate capital, and the fraction of entrepreneurs. We also find that voluntary bequests are an important channel that allows some high-ability workers to establish or enlarge an entrepreneurial activity: with accidental bequests only, there would be fewer large firms, fewer entrepreneurs, and less aggregate capital, but also less wealth concentration. |
Keywords: | Loans ; Wealth |
Date: | 2005 |
URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:fip:fedhwp:wp-05-09&r=dge |
By: | Susumu Imai; Neelam Jain (Economics Northern Illinois University) |
Keywords: | Structural estimation, Dynamic programming, MCMC |
Date: | 2005 |
URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:red:sed005:432&r=dge |
By: | Reinout De Bock (Economics Northwestern University) |
Keywords: | Embodied Technical Change, Search and Matching, Persistence |
JEL: | E24 E32 J64 |
Date: | 2005 |
URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:red:sed005:572&r=dge |
By: | Nicola Fuchs-Schuendeln (Department of Economics Harvard University) |
Keywords: | life cycle consumption, natural experiment |
JEL: | D12 E21 |
Date: | 2005 |
URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:red:sed005:517&r=dge |
By: | Tim Worall; Jonathan P Thomas |
Keywords: | Social Insurance, Moral Hazard, Limited Commitment, Unemployment Insurance, Crowding Out. |
JEL: | D61 H31 H55 J65 |
Date: | 2005 |
URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:red:sed005:158&r=dge |
By: | Stephen D. Williamson |
Keywords: | monetary policy, monetary theory, Friedman rule, money neutrality |
JEL: | E4 E5 |
Date: | 2005 |
URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:red:sed005:379&r=dge |
By: | Fang Yang (Department of Economics University of Minnesota) |
Keywords: | Consumption, Housing, Portfolio |
JEL: | H31 E21 E27 R21 |
Date: | 2005 |
URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:red:sed005:718&r=dge |
By: | Andres Erosa; Luisa Fuster; Diego Restuccia |
Abstract: | Using panel data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), we document that gender differences in wages almost double during the first 20 years of labor market experience and that there are substantial gender differences in employment and hours of work during the life cycle. A large portion of gender differences in labor market attachment can be traced to the impact of children on the labor supply of women. We develop a quantitative life-cycle model of fertility, labor supply, and human capital accumulation decisions. We use this model to assess the role of fertility on gender differences in labor supply and wages over the life cycle. In our model, fertility lowers the lifetime intensity of market activity, reducing the incentives for human capital accumulation and wage growth over the life cycle of females relative to males. We calibrate the model to panel data of men and to fertility and child related labor market histories of women. We find that fertility accounts for most of the gender differences in labor supply and wages during the life cycle documented in the NLSY data. |
Keywords: | Labor economics ; Wages |
Date: | 2005 |
URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:fip:fedrwp:05-09&r=dge |
By: | V. Anton Muscatelli, Patrizio Tirelli and Carmine Trescroci |
Abstract: | This paper derives a NewKeynesiandynamic general equilibrium model with liquidity constrained consumers and sticky prices. The model allows a role for both government spending and taxation in the DGE model. The mode lis then estimated using US data. We demonstrate that there seems to be a significant role for rule-of-thumb consumer behaviour. Our model is then used to analyse the interaction between Fiscal and monetary policies. We examine the extent to which fiscal policy (automatic stabilisers) assist or hinder monetary policy when the latter takes a standard forward-looking inflation targetingf orm. We also examine the extent to which inertia in fiscal policy and the presence of rule-of-thumb consumers aspects output and inflation variability in the presence of such a monetary policy rule.. |
JEL: | E58 E62 E63 |
URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:gla:glaewp:2005_19&r=dge |
By: | Enrique G. Mendoza |
Keywords: | Sudden Stops, Fisherian Deflation, Tobin’s q, Collateral Constraints |
JEL: | F41 F32 E44 |
Date: | 2005 |
URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:red:sed005:307&r=dge |
By: | B. Petrongolo; Z. Eckstein (Economics Tel Aviv University); S. Ge |
Keywords: | minimum wages, compliance, job search, wage growth |
JEL: | J42 J63 J64 |
Date: | 2005 |
URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:red:sed005:76&r=dge |
By: | Olivier Jeanne; Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas |
Keywords: | capital flows, emerging countries, Feldstein Horioka, neoclassical growth model, Lucas puzzle |
JEL: | F3 F4 |
Date: | 2005 |
URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:red:sed005:240&r=dge |
By: | Vincenzo Quadrini; Urban Jermann |
Keywords: | Debt over-hang, financial flexibility, business cycle asymmetries |
JEL: | E32 G1 |
Date: | 2005 |
URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:red:sed005:692&r=dge |
By: | Adriano Rampini (Department of Finance Northwestern University); Alberto Bisin |
Keywords: | Markets; Optimal Policy; Optimal Taxation; Time Consistency |
JEL: | E61 H21 D82 |
Date: | 2005 |
URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:red:sed005:325&r=dge |
By: | Christopher D. Carroll (Economics Johns Hopkins University) |
Keywords: | Numerical Optimization; Dynamic Programming; Precautionary Saving |
JEL: | C61 C63 E2 |
Date: | 2005 |
URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:red:sed005:628&r=dge |
By: | Pedro Silos |
Abstract: | Common practice in the housing and wealth distribution literature has proceeded as if the modeling of housing rental markets was unnecessary due to renters’ relative low levels of wealth and the small fraction they represent in the total population. This paper shows, however, that their inclusion matters substantially when dealing with wealth concentration over the life cycle. Renters are concentrated in the poorer and younger groups. This concentration results in a pattern of housing wealth concentration over an agent’s life that is decreasing, with a slope as steep as that of nonhousing (or financial) wealth. The author constructs an overlapping-generations economy with a housing rental market that is consistent with this fact. |
Date: | 2005 |
URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:fip:fedawp:2005-25&r=dge |
By: | Ellen McGrattan (Research Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis); Edward Prescott |
Keywords: | Productivity & Intangibles |
Date: | 2005 |
URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:red:sed005:274&r=dge |
By: | Juan Carlos Hatchondo; Hugo Hopenhayn |
Keywords: | Social insurance |
JEL: | H21 H31 I38 |
Date: | 2005 |
URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:red:sed005:129&r=dge |
By: | Flavio Cunha (Department of Economics University of Chicago) |
Keywords: | Human Capital Investments, Inequality |
JEL: | J24 D31 |
Date: | 2005 |
URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:red:sed005:351&r=dge |
By: | John Rust; Harry J. Paarsch (Economics University of Iowa) |
Keywords: | stochastic dynamic programming; optimal timber rotation; spacial economics; rent maximization. |
JEL: | C81 D92 L72 Q2 |
Date: | 2005 |
URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:red:sed005:81&r=dge |
By: | Silvana Tenreyro; Miklos Koren (Economics Harvard University, Hungarian Academy of Sciences) |
Keywords: | technology choice, volatility, development |
JEL: | O11 O14 O41 F4 |
Date: | 2005 |
URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:red:sed005:392&r=dge |
By: | Cyril Monnet; Erwan Quintin |
Date: | 2005 |
URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:red:sed005:275&r=dge |
By: | Henry Siu |
Date: | 2005 |
URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:red:sed005:821&r=dge |
By: | Huberto M. Ennis (Research Department Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond) |
Keywords: | Random Matching, Private Information, Welfare |
JEL: | D83 E31 |
Date: | 2005 |
URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:red:sed005:135&r=dge |
By: | S. Boragan Aruoba (Economics University of Maryland); Christopher J. Waller |
Keywords: | money, capital, inflation, welfare |
JEL: | E13 E52 |
Date: | 2005 |
URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:red:sed005:550&r=dge |
By: | Dirk Krueger; Karsten Jeske |
Keywords: | Housing, Mortgage Market, Default Risk |
JEL: | E21 G11 R21 |
Date: | 2005 |
URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:red:sed005:242&r=dge |
By: | Stephen Coate; Marco Battaglini (Economics Princeton University) |
Keywords: | political economy |
Date: | 2005 |
URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:red:sed005:209&r=dge |
By: | Morris Davis; Robert F. Martin (International Finance Federal Reserve Board) |
Keywords: | House Prices, Equity Premium, Elasticity |
JEL: | E1 G1 |
Date: | 2005 |
URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:red:sed005:753&r=dge |
By: | Eva Carceles-Poveda; Arpad Abraham |
Keywords: | Production Economies, Enforcement Constraints, Financial Intermediation |
JEL: | D5 E22 |
Date: | 2005 |
URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:red:sed005:661&r=dge |
By: | Linda Tesar; Ariel Burstein (Economics University of Michigan); Chris Kurz |
Keywords: | business cycle sychronization, production sharing, |
JEL: | F23 F41 |
Date: | 2005 |
URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:red:sed005:304&r=dge |
By: | Mariacristina De Nardi; Marco Cagetti (Economics University of Minnesota) |
Keywords: | savings, wealth accumulation, structural estimation, bequests |
Date: | 2005 |
URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:red:sed005:144&r=dge |
By: | Carlos Carrillo-Tudela (Department of Economics University of Essex) |
Keywords: | Search, experience, contracts, promotion, dual labour markets, discrimination. |
JEL: | J63 J64 J41 |
Date: | 2005 |
URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:red:sed005:110&r=dge |
By: | Shannon Seitz; Jeremy Lise |
Keywords: | Collective Model, Consumption Inequality, Marital Sorting, Adult Equivalence Scales |
JEL: | D12 D13 D63 |
Date: | 2005 |
URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:red:sed005:448&r=dge |
By: | Adrian Masters |
Keywords: | directed search, commitment, mininimum wage |
JEL: | J41 |
Date: | 2005 |
URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:red:sed005:347&r=dge |
By: | Juan Carlos Cordoba (Rice University); Genevieve Verdier (Texas A&M) |
Abstract: | Lucas (2004) asserts that 'Of the tendencies that are harmful to sound economics, the most seductive, and in my opinion, the most poisonous, is to focus on questions of distribution...The potential for improving the lives of poor people by finding different ways of distributing current production is nothing [Italics in the original] compared to the apparently limitless potential of increasing production.' In this article we evaluate this claim using an extended version of Lucas' (1987) welfare evaluation framework. We construct a social welfare function following Lucas' (2004) own suggestion of weighing everyone's welfare equally, and compute welfare measures in the same way as Lucas (1987). The result is surprising and robust. The potential welfare gains of redistribution are substantial and likely exceed the welfare gains of economic growth. Moreover, our calculations suggest that US inequality is above its optimal level. |
Keywords: | Welfare costs, business cycles, economic growth, inequality |
JEL: | E1 E2 D3 |
Date: | 2005–11–18 |
URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:wpa:wuwpma:0511021&r=dge |
By: | Adam Szeidl; Raj Chetty |
Keywords: | Portfolio choice, Housing, Risk Aversion, Microfoundations |
JEL: | D81 E21 G11 |
Date: | 2005 |
URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:red:sed005:122&r=dge |