Barros, Fernando; Gomes, Fabio Augusto Reis; Doherty … - 2022
How can we measure the welfare benefit of ongoing stabilization policies? We develop a methodology to calculate the … welfare cost of business cycles taking into account that observed consumption is partially smoothed. We propose a … decomposition that disentangles consumption in a mix of laissez-faire (absent policies) and riskless components. With a novel …