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This paper develops a theory of subjective beliefs that departs from rational expectations, and shows that biases in …
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This survey discusses behavioral and experimental macroeconomics emphasizing a complex systems perspective. The economy consists of boundedly rational heterogeneous agents who do not fully understand their complex environment and use simple decision heuristics. Central to our survey is the...
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Hayek's business cycle theory does not depend on its traditional assumption of systematic predictive errors. To the … contrary, the theory is also consistent with unbiased expectations where some people overestimate and others underestimate the …, the theory predicts a cluster of observable errors and replicates the important features of Hayek's canonical version of …
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This paper develops a theory of subjective beliefs that departs from rational expectations, and shows that biases in …
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One of the many interesting controversies in economics concerns Harrod's "knife-edge" or Harrod's "razor’s edge". In 1939, Sir Roy Harrod published a paper in which he presented a dynamic macroeconomic model that appeared to have an unstable golden age growth path. If an external shock knocks...
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We construct a rational expectations model in which aggregate growth alternates between a low growth and a high growth state. When all agents expect growth to be slow, the returns on investment are low, and little investment takes place. This slows growth and confirms the prediction that the...
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