This paper applies the theory of relational contracts to make precise the idea that because households are engaged in a … Samuelson. This nests as special cases the objective functions used in currently popular models of households engaged in one …

This article considers non-unitary models of household behavior. These models suppose explicitly that households …

exponential utility allows us to derive an explicit relationship between optimal money holdings, the household?s desire to tilt …

constraints. In this paper, we assume that the model simulates persons grouped into households, and a person/household population …) choosing the households that belong to the generated population. The reweighting task can be performed using an Iterative … applied pattern is to estimate household-level weights using IPF, so that they match the control totals for the households …

In this paper, we attempt to shed light on whether Japanese households are rational or if their behavior is influenced …

endogenous information acquisition, using tailored surveys of firms and households. First, we show that firms perceive a greater … exposure to exchange rate movements than households, which is reflected in higher levels of information acquisition and less … rate information strongly increases in various proxies for stake size. Second, households who perceive higher costs of …

endogenous information acquisition, using tailored surveys of firms and households. First, we show that firms perceive a greater … exposure to exchange rate movements than households, which is reflected in higher levels of information acquisition and less … rate information strongly increases in various proxies for stake size. Second, households who perceive higher costs of …