Can a Representative-Agent Model Represent a Heterogeneous-Agent Economy

Accounting for observed fluctuations in aggregate employment, consumption, and real wage using the optimality conditions of a representative household requires preferences that are incompatible with economic priors. In order to reconcile theory with data, we construct a model with heterogeneous agen...

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Main Authors: AN, Sungbae, CHANG, Yongsung, KIM, Sun-Bin
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Language:English
Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2009
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Online Access:https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soe_research/544
https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soe_research/article/1543/viewcontent/mac.1.2.29.pdf
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Institution: Singapore Management University
Language: English