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Nonsuperneutrality of money in the Sidrauski model with heterogeous agents
Heer, Burkhard - 2003
Superneutrality is demonstrated to no longer hold in the Sidrauski model as soon as agents are heterogenous with regard to their productivity. However, quantitative effects of inflation on the capital stock are found to be rather small.
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Present-focused preferences and sin goods consumption at the extensive and intensive margins
Kalamov, Zarko Y.; Runkel, Marco - 2020
This paper analyzes sin goods consumption when individuals exhibit present-focused preferences. It considers three types of present focus: present-bias with varying degrees of naiveté, Gul-Pesendorfer preferences, and a dual-self approach. We investigate the incentives to deviate from healthy...
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The money-age distribution : empirical facts and limited monetary models
Heer, Burkhard (contributor); Maußner, Alfred (contributor) - 2007
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An extended macro-finance model with financial factors
Dewachter, Hans; Iania, Leonardo - 2010
, additional liquidity-related and return forecasting factors. Liquidity factors are obtained from a decomposition of the TED …-sectional fit of the yield curve. Second, we find that financial shocks, either in the form of liquidity or risk premium shocks …
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Uncertain bequest needs and long-term Insurance contracts
Fei, Wenan; Fluet, Claude; Schlesinger, Harris - 2008
We examine how long-term life insurance contracts can be designed to incorporate uncertain future bequest needs. An individual who buys a life insurance contract early in life is often uncertain about the future financial needs of his or her family, in the event of an untimely death. Ideally,...
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On the arbitrariness of consumption
Whalley, John; Zhang, Shunming - 2009
We discuss a simple model of choices of joint consumption by a working couple who place maintenance of their marriage (relationship) above all else. Any proposal made by one partner seeking to provide maximal utility to the other so as to preserve the marriage, in the case where preferences of...
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Adaptation, anticipation-bias and optimal income taxation
Aronsson, Thomas; Schöb, Ronnie - 2012
Adaptation is omnipresent but people systematically fail to correctly anticipate the degree to which they adapt. This leads individuals to make inefficient intertemporal decisions. This paper concerns optimal income taxation to correct for such anticipation-biases in a framework where consumers...
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When inefficiency begets efficiency
Gersbach, Hans; Haller, Hans - 2004
Collective consumption decisions taken by the members of a household may prove inefficient. The impact on market performance depends on whether household inefficiencies are caused by inefficient net trades with the market or by inefficient distribution of resources within households. Inefficient...
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A theory of price adjustment under loss aversion
Ahrens, Steffen; Pirschel, Inske; Snower, Dennis J. - 2014
We present a new partial equilibrium theory of price adjustment, based on consumer loss aversion. In line with prospect … theory, the consumers' perceived utility losses from price increases are weighted more heavily than the perceived utility … an otherwise standard dynamic neoclassical model of monopolistic competition. The resulting theory of price adjustment is …
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Collective investment decision making with heterogeneous time preferences
Gollier, Christian; Zeckhauser, Richard - 2003
We examine the investment decision problem of a group whose members have heterogeneous time preferences. In particular, they have different discount factors for utility, possibly not exponential. We characterize the properties of efficient allocations of resources and of shadow prices that would...
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