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It has been shown that under perfect competition and a Cobb-Douglas production function, a basic real business cycle model may exhibit indeterminacy and sunspot fluctuations when income tax rates are determined by a balanced-budget rule. This paper introduces in an otherwise standard real...
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This paper develops and estimates a general equilibrium rational expectations model with search and multiple equilibria …
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, expectations of higher future productivity raise the demand for new vintages of capital relative to old capital. Capital …
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structure of production. Noticeably lacking, however, is a clear theory of expectations. Recent Austrian responses to rational … expectations critiques—such as positing a prisoner’s dilemma, heterogeneous entrepreneurs, and adverse selection—try to fill this … gap. But much work remains to be done developing an Austrian theory of expectations, one where they are endogenous to the …
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Policymakers use forecasts to project the consequences of particular policy decisions for certain policy targets. This chapter investigates the use of economic forecasting in policy making by discussing practical examples, providing new empirical evidence and computing forecasts using different...
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a significant role. These episodes have revived interest in expectations driven business cycles models. However … towards addressing this limitation of expectations driven business cycle models. We propose a generalization of the Greenwood …
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