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Type Journal Article
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title Approximate Versus Exact Equilibria in Dynamic Economices
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Felix Kübler
  • Karl Schmedders
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Journal Title Econometrica
Publisher Econometric Society
Geographical Reach international
Volume 73
Number 4 (07)
Page Range 1205 - 1235
Date 2005
Abstract Text This paper develops theoretical foundations for an error analysis of approximate equilibria in dynamic stochastic general equilibrium models with heterogeneous agents and incomplete financial markets. While there are several algorithms that compute prices and allocations for which agents' first-order conditions are approximately satisfied ("approximate equilibria"), there are few results on how to interpret the errors in these candidate solutions and how to relate the computed allocations and prices to exact equilibrium allocations and prices. We give a simple example to illustrate that approximate equilibria might be very far from exact equilibria. We then interpret approximate equilibria as equilibria for close-by economies; that is, for economies with close-by individual endowments and preferences. Copyright The Econometric Society 2005.
Official URL http://hdl.handle.net/10.1111/j.1468-0262.2005.00614.x
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