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We construct an overlapping generations model in which parents vote on the tax rate that determines publicly provided education and offspring choose their effort in learning activities. The technology governing the accumulation of human capital allows these decisions to be strategic complements....
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Human beliefs, while always remaining in equilibrium, serve as a an equilibrium selector and determine the degree of aggregate volatility. Fully rational and risk averse economic agents expect macro-level dynamics to be characterized by a specific degree of volatility. Given this expectation the...
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even the simplest, such as expected utility theory, able to describe the behavior of decision-makers within a more …In this paper we introduce a new, analytically tractable model for decision-making under risk in which psychological … characteristics related to the degree of optimism or pessimism of the decision-maker are considered. The model we propose, which is …
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This paper studies the export decision of risk-averse firms in a model featuring aggregate uncertainty and no capital …
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