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Article: Risk-sensitive Consumption and Savings under Rational Inattention
Title | Risk-sensitive Consumption and Savings under Rational Inattention |
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Issue Date | 2010 |
Publisher | American Economic Association. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.aeaweb.org/aej-macro/index.php |
Citation | American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2010, v. 2 n. 4, p. 281-325 How to Cite? |
Abstract | This paper studies the consumption-savings behavior of households who have risk-sensitive preferences and suffer from limited information-processing capacity (rational inattention or RI). We first solve the model explicitly and show that RI increases precautionary savings by interacting with income uncertainty and risk sensitivity. Given the closed-form solutions, we find that the RI model displays a wide range of observational equivalence properties, implying that consumption and savings data cannot distinguish between risk sensitivity, robustness, or the discount factor, in any combination. We then show that the welfare costs from RI are larger for risk-sensitive households than any other observationally-equivalent settings. (JEL D11, D81, D82, E13, E21) |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/207586 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 6.3 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 12.324 |
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DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Luo, Y | - |
dc.contributor.author | Young, ER | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-01-09T06:14:22Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2015-01-09T06:14:22Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2010 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2010, v. 2 n. 4, p. 281-325 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 1945-7707 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/207586 | - |
dc.description.abstract | This paper studies the consumption-savings behavior of households who have risk-sensitive preferences and suffer from limited information-processing capacity (rational inattention or RI). We first solve the model explicitly and show that RI increases precautionary savings by interacting with income uncertainty and risk sensitivity. Given the closed-form solutions, we find that the RI model displays a wide range of observational equivalence properties, implying that consumption and savings data cannot distinguish between risk sensitivity, robustness, or the discount factor, in any combination. We then show that the welfare costs from RI are larger for risk-sensitive households than any other observationally-equivalent settings. (JEL D11, D81, D82, E13, E21) | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | American Economic Association. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.aeaweb.org/aej-macro/index.php | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics | - |
dc.rights | American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics. Copyright © American Economic Association. | - |
dc.title | Risk-sensitive Consumption and Savings under Rational Inattention | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.identifier.email | Luo, Y: yluo@econ.hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1257/mac.2.4.281 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85017092568 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 170294 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 2 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 4 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 281 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 325 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000285177700011 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United States | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 1945-7715 | - |