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

개인저자
An, Sungbae ;, Chang, Yongsung ;, Kim, Sun-Binung ;
수록페이지
29-54 p.
발행일자
2009.07.10
출판사
American Economic Association
초록
[영문]AbstractAccounting 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 agents whose decisions are difficult to aggregate because of incomplete capital markets and the indivisible nature of labor supply. If we were to explain the model-generated aggregate time series using decisions of a stand-in household, such a household must have a nonconcave or unstable utility as is often found with the aggregate US data