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This paper provides a dynamic optimization model of durable good inventories to study the interactions between investment demand and production of capital goods. There are three major findings: First, capital suppliers' inventory behavior makes investment demand more volatile in equilibrium;...
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This paper provides a general equilibrium multi-stage production model to explain the co-existence and co-movement of output- and input-inventories. The model offers a neoclassical perspective on the propagation mechanism of demand uncertainty. It reveals that uncertainty in demand at downstream...
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technologies. In an economy with aggregate risk, the different portfolio choices induced by heterogeneous trading technologies lead … with a reasonable low risk aversion rate, the business cycle costs 6.49% per period consumption for an average household … when I calibrate this model to match the risk premium. …
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returns over long periods of time. However, the approach to risk adjustment has typically been rather cursory, and has tended …
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welfare costs of inflation arise because inflation increases consumption risk by eroding the buffer-stock-insurance value of … money, thus hindering consumption smoothing at the household level. Such an inflation-induced increase in consumption risk …
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Irreversible investment and the techniques associated with pricing real options have led to significant advances many areas. We broaden this range of applications, showing how the techniques can apply to many policy problems in finance, macroeconomics, and trade policy. With small changes,...
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Presentation to the Missouri Valley Economics Association, St. Louis, MO - Feb. 28, 2003
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Presentation to the Missouri Valley Economics Association, St. Louis, MO - Feb. 28, 2003
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