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coefficient over last four decades. This seems to suggest a robust empirical evidence that the growth or change in inequality … across nations has a negative relation with initial degree of inequality. This would imply that poorer nations starting with … higher degree of inequality experience weaker growth in inequality, exhibiting some sort of convergence in the inequality …
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How do voters allocate costly attention to alternative political issues? And how does selective ignorance of voters interact with policy design by politicians? We address these questions by developing a model of electoral competition with rationally inattentive voters. Rational inattention...
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-driven theory of dynamic pricing in which the Phillips curve slope is endogenous to systematic aspects of monetary policy. In our …
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Using a novel dataset that contains qualitative firm survey data on sales forecasts as well as balance-sheet data on realized sales, we document that only major forecast errors are predictable and display autocorrelation. This result is a particular violation of the Full Information Rational...
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In the seminal rational inattention model of Matĕjka and McKay (2015), logit demand arises from the discrete choice of agents who are uncertain about choice payoffs and have access to a flexible, costly information acquisition technology (RI-logit). A notable limitation of this powerful...
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We show what the rational inattention model predicts about the treatment effect of information provided during a randomized control trial. This is a non-trivial question because the model implies optimal attention choice before, during, and after an information treatment. The predictions of the...
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-of-thumb consumers. We demonstrate that an unexpected increase in government spending increases income inequality and decreases wealth … inequality. In contrast to the conventional wisdom that the financing of additional expenditures by debt rather than taxes …
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How much does inequality matter for the business cycle and vice versa? Using a Bayesian likelihood approach, we … income risk and taxes. We find that adding data on inequality does not materially change the estimated shocks and frictions … income inequality. The systematic components of monetary and fiscal policy are important for inequality as well. …
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