Business cycle fluctuations in Mirrlees economies: The case of i.i.d. shocks

Marcelo Veracierto

Journal of Economic Theory, 2021, vol. 196, issue C

Abstract: I consider a real business cycle model in which agents have private information about the i.i.d. realizations of their value of leisure. For the case of logarithmic preferences I provide an analytical characterization of the solution to the associated mechanism design problem. Moreover, I show a striking irrelevance result: that the stationary behavior of all aggregate variables are exactly the same in the private information economy as in the full information case. Numerical simulations indicate that the irrelevance result approximately holds for more general preferences.

Keywords: Risk sharing; Business cycles; Private information; Social insurance; Optimal contracts; Heterogeneous agents (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D39 D82 D86 E32 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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Working Paper: Business Cycle Fluctuations in Mirrlees Economies: The Case of i.i.d. Shocks (2019)
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jet.2021.105278

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