The question we ask is: within the set of a three-period-lived OLG economies with a stochastic endowment process, a stochastic dividend process, and sequentially incomplete complete markets, under what set of conditions may a set of government transfers dynamically Pareto dominate the laissez...

Net exports and current account balances among developed countries,which contributed to the so called “global imbalances”, arehighly persistent. Despite success along many dimensions, internationalbusiness cycle models have difficulty replicating these salient,low-frequency features of...