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Type Journal Article
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title Uniformly self-justified equilibria
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Authors
  • Felix Kübler
  • Simon Scheidegger
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Journal Title Journal of Economic Theory
Publisher Elsevier
Geographical Reach international
ISSN 0022-0531
Volume 212
Page Range 105707
Date 2023
Abstract Text We consider dynamic stochastic economies with heterogeneous agents and introduce the concept of uniformly self-justified equilibria (USJE)-temporary equilibria for which expectations satisfy the following rationality requirements: i) individuals' forecasting functions for the next period's endogenous variables are assumed to lie in a compact, finite-dimensional set of functions, and ii) the forecasts constitute the best uniform approximation to a selection of the equilibrium correspondence. We show that in contrast to rational expectations equilibria, USJE always exist, and we develop a simple algorithm to compute them. As an application, we discuss a stochastic overlapping generations exchange economy. We give an example where recursive (rational expectations) equilibria fail to exist and explain how to construct USJE for that example. In addition, we provide numerical examples to illustrate our computational method.
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Digital Object Identifier 10.1016/j.jet.2023.105707
Other Identification Number merlin-id:24209
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Keywords Dynamic general equilibrium, Dynamically simple equilibrium
Additional Information Bereits als Working Paper in SSRN No. 3995209 erschienen: https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3995209.