Thursday, July 19, 2012

ricardian equivalence ? nyet ...."changes in the timing of taxes that would be neutral ....


".....in a  representative agent model  turn out to have
large real effects 
 in a model
with heterogeneous agents and incomplete markets.....
across heterogeneous agents
the average cross-sectional welfare cost
of aggregate
fluctuations can be
much larger
than the cost for a hypothetical representative agent"