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We develop methods to solve general equilibrium models in which forward-looking agents are subject to waves of pessimism, optimism, and uncertainty that turn out to critically affect macroeconomic outcomes. Agents in the model are fully rational, conduct Bayesian learning, and they know that...
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households with children are under-insured against the risk that an adult member of the household dies. We develop a tractable … macroeconomic model with human capital risk, age-dependent returns to human capital investment, and endogenous borrowing constraints … capital risk. A calibrated version of the model can quantitatively account for the life-cycle variation of life …
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"This paper evaluates to what extent the introduction of firing costs can affect the aggregate dynamics of a neoclassical growth model with hetrogeneous establishments. Similarly to the previous literature, firing costs are found to have large steady- state effcts. However, they have no...
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