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- Information, Stabilization, And Welfare: The Case Of Sunspots

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  • Subir Chattopadhyay

    (Universidad de Alicante)

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The stationary sunspot equilibria of a simple OLG economy with heterogeneous agents areconsidered. These equilibria are known to be suboptimal. The focus of the paper is on the efficacy,based on welfare economic considerations and informational requirements, of government policy insuch an environment.The main result is that knowledge of (a) the sunspot equilibrium net trades, (b) weak interval typeinformation on two parameters, and (c) weak set type information on the location of some optimalstationary allocation, is sufficient to induce a competitive location of some optimal stationaryallocation, is sufficient to induce a competitive equilibrium which is a pareto optimal Paretoimprovement over the sunspot allocation which has the further property of reaching a Pareto optimalstationary allocation in finite time.The result are interpreted as demonstrating that in a simple model with a sunspot environment, policyis very effective and that welfare economic considerations lead to stabilization.

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  • Subir Chattopadhyay, 1999. "- Information, Stabilization, And Welfare: The Case Of Sunspots," Working Papers. Serie AD 1999-02, Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas, S.A. (Ivie).
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    • D52 - Microeconomics - - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium - - - Incomplete Markets
    • D61 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Allocative Efficiency; Cost-Benefit Analysis

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