The purpose of this paper is to report a new approach for measuring the general equilibrium willingness to pay for large changes in spatially delineated public goods such as air quality. We estimate the parameters of a locational equilibrium model and compute equilibria for alternative scenarios...

The repeated agency model has been widely applied to a number of interesting and important problems in economics, though in many instances, the fact that the standard model generates transient dynamics limits the usefulness of the results obtained from the model for the simple reason that purely...

This paper considers the possibility that, in linear rational expectations (RE) models, all determinate (uniquely non-explosive) solutions coincide with the minimum state variable (MSV) solution, which is unique by construction. In univariate specifications of the form yt = AEtyt+1 + Cyt-1 + ut...

In most models in which firms and workers learn about worker productivity through repeated observations of on-the-job performance, the amount of information revealed about workers is exogenously given and constant across jobs. In this paper, we examine what happens when the amount of information...

Recursive game theory provides theoretical procedures for computing the equilibrium payoff sets of repeated games and the equilibrium payoff correspondences of dynamic games. In this paper, we propose and implement outer and inner approximation methods for value correspondences that naturally...

In this paper, we reconcile two opposing views about the elasticity of intertemporal substitution (EIS), a parameter that plays a key role in macroeconomic analysis. On the one hand, empirical studies using aggregate consumption data typically find that the EIS is close to zero (Hall 1988). On...

(This paper is a substantially revised and modified version of 'Financial innovation and expectations: endogenous incompleteness and real indeterminacy', CARESS Working Paper #95-01, University of Pennsylvania). We study a stock market economy with pooli