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This paper presents an equilibrium model of the term structure of interest rates when investors have heterogeneous preferences. The basic model considers a pure exchange economy of two classes of investors with different (but constant) relative risk-aversion and gives closed-form solutions to...
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Any interesting model of economic geography must involve a tension between "centripetal" forces that tend to produce agglomerations and "centrifugal" forces that tend to pull them apart. This paper explores one such model, and shows that the model links together a number of themes in the...
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This paper provides an algorithm for computing Markov Perfect Nash Equilibria (Maskin and Tirole, 1988a and b) for … the computational burden of computing equilibria for industries in which a large number of firms are typically active …
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-level equilibria? These questions lie at the heart of the current disagreement over how one should view business cycles. This paper …, while in the other it yields up to three equilibria. When more than one equilibrium exists, a selection rule is needed. The … level equilibria had more than one equilibrium existed …
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incompleteness produces several interesting effects on aggregate output behavior. First, multiple stochastic equilibria exist in … aggregate activity. These equilibria are distinguished by differences in both the mean and the variance of output. Second … economy across equilibria. Third, when aggregate shocks are recurrent, the economy cycles between periods of boom and …
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This paper presents a model of the interaction between invention and learning by doing. Learning depends upon invention in that learning by doing is viewed as the serendipitous exploration of the finite productive potential of invented technologies. At the same time, the profitability of costly...
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This paper constructs a stochastic general equilibrium model of a small open economy consisting of risk averse optimizing agents. The stochastic processes describing the rate of monetary growth, government expenditure, private production, and the foreign price level are taken to be exogenous,...
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In this paper, we investigate the descriptive and normative properties of competitive equilibrium with moral hazard when firms offer "price contracts" which allow clients to purchase as much insurance as they wish at the quoted prices. We show that a price equilibrium always exists and is one of...
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-Debreu economy. First, multiple stochastic equilibria exist in aggregate activity. These equilibria are distinguished by differences … indefinitely affect real activity by shifting the economy across equilibria. As a result, the model can exhibit periods of boom and …
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Using an endogenous growth model in which learning by doing, although bounded in each good, exhibits spillovers across goods, this paper investigates the dynamic effects of international trade. Examining an LDC and a DC, the latter distinguished by a higher initial level of knowledge, under...
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