Arbeitspapier
Survival and long-run dynamics with heterogeneous beliefs under recursive preferences
I study the long-run behavior of a two-agent economy where agents differ in their beliefs and are endowed with homothetic recursive preferences of the Duffie-Epstein-Zin type. When preferences are separable, the economy is dominated in the long run by the agent whose beliefs are relatively more precise, a result consistent with the market selection hypothesis. However, recursive preference specifications lead to equilibria in which both agents survive, or to ones where either agent can dominate the economy with a strictly positive probability. In this respect, the market selection hypothesis is not robust to deviations from separability. I derive analytical conditions for the existence of nondegenerate long-run equilibria, and show that these equilibria exist for plausible parameterizations when risk aversion is larger than the inverse of the intertemporal elasticity of substitution, providing a justification for models that combine belief heterogeneity and recursive preferences.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: Working Paper ; No. 2011-06
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Wirtschaft
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Boroviécka, Jaroslav
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Veröffentlichung
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Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
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Chicago, IL
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2011
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Boroviécka, Jaroslav
- Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
Time of origin
- 2011