기사
On the Welfare Costs of Consumption Uncertainty /
- 개인저자
- Barro, Robert J.
- 수록페이지
- p.30
- 발행일자
- 2007.01.15
- 출판사
- National Bureau of Economic Research
초록
[영문]Satisfactory calculations of the welfare cost of aggregate consumption uncertainty require a framework that replicates major features of asset prices and returns, such as the high equity premium and low risk-free rate. A Lucas-tree model with rare but large disasters is such a framework. In a baseline simulation, the welfare cost of disaster risk is large -- society would be willing to lower real GDP by about 20% each year to eliminate all disaster risk, including wars. In contrast, the welfare cost from usual economic fluctuations is much smaller, though still important -- corresponding to lowering GDP by around 1.5% each year.