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Macroeconomic dynamics are shaped by how individual incentives to spend and accumulate interact with the decisions of others. The goal of this paper is to identify--within a simple large-game-theoretic structure--which types of agent interactions favor which types of dynamic equilibrium...
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usefully aggregated into a single sector model. Such an aggregation misleads the economist as to the economy's underlying …
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maximizing investors. The first part of the paper extends the Hicks and Leontief aggregation theorems of consumer choice theory …This paper discusses the issue of consistent simple sum aggregation over assets within the context of expected utility … to the portfolio choice problem. Next, necessary and sufficient conditions for consistent simple sum aggregation are …
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This paper explores the relationship between aggregate land rents and aggregate transport costs for land markets in which locations differ solely in terms of accessibility. That there exists a relationship between land rents and transport costs has been recognized at least since the time of von...
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This paper uses historicaI U.S. data to directly estimate the contribution of intergenerational transfers to aggregate capital accumulation. The evidence presented indicates that intergenerational transfers account for the vast majority of aggregate U .S. capital formation; only a negligible...
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This paper discusses two simple decompositions for aggregate productivity analysis in the presence of distortions and in general equilibrium. The first is a generalization of Baqaee and Farhi (2017) and the second is due to Petrin and Levinsohn (2012). In the process, we propose a new...
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Despite the clear success of forecast combination in many economic environments, several important issues remain incompletely resolved. The issues relate to selection of the set of forecasts to combine, and whether some form of additional regularization (e.g., shrinkage) is desirable. Against...
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asset markets and indivisible labor supply. Imperfect aggregation manifests itself through preference shocks in the …
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Most empirical policy work requires the aggregation of policies. Trade policy aggregation exemplifies the aggregation … problem poignantly, with thousands of highly dispersed trade barriers. This paper provides methods of policy aggregation that …-country policy modeling. An application to India shows that the standard atheoretic method of aggregation overstates India's real …
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We study a general equilibrium model in which entrepreneurs finance investment with optimal financial contracts. Because of enforceability problems, contracts are constrained efficient. We show that limited enforceability amplifies the impact of technological innovations on aggregate output....
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