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stochastic optimization problem However under realistic descriptions of utility and uncertainty the optimal consumption/saving …The standard approach to modelling consumption/saving problems is to assume that the decisionmaker is solving a dynamic …
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Households' and firms' subjective inflation expectations play a central role in macroeconomic and intertemporal microeconomic models. We discuss how subjective inflation expectations are measured, the patterns they display, their determinants, and how they shape households' and firms' economic...
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Economists have studied for a long time how decision-makers allocate scarce resources. The recent literature on rational inattention studies how decision-makers allocate the scarce resource attention. The idea is that decision-makers have a limited amount of attention and have to decide how to...
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Households' and firms' subjective inflation expectations play a central role in macroeconomic and intertemporal microeconomic models. We discuss how subjective inflation expectations are measured, the patterns they display, their determinants, and how they shape households' and firms' economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351930
two-period consumption and savings model for a loss-averse agent who measures utilityfrom consumption relative to a … of the return on saving. We find non-linearity in the fractionof wealth saved, where the specific saving pattern depends … on the sign of the real return on savings. The amount of saving is nondecreasing in initial wealth and the riskiness of …
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consumption choice as well as on economic growth is ambiguous as it affects the mean as well as the variance of disposable income …
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In this paper the impacts of income and consumption taxes are analyzed within a model of stochastic endogenous growth … with congestion. It is shown that the optimal amount of governmental input diminishes with uncertainty and that the optimal …
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ascribed to the specific int eraction of consumption and portfolio choice in the determination of growth and welfare. …
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environmental preferences and uncertainty on optimal financing is ambiguous. …
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stochastic pollution tax, which is uncorrelated with the technological uncertainty of pollution, is compared with a pure … uncertainty associated with pollution leads to an increase in abatement activities and therefore supports the corresponding …
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