An Estimate of the Elasticity of Intertemporal Substitution in a Production Economy

Taiji Harashima

Macroeconomics from EconWPA

Abstract: The elasticity of intertemporal substitution (EIS) at the macro level has been estimated mostly based on endowment economy models and these estimates are very sensitive to the choice of interest rates that are used for estimation. Estimates based on production economy models do not need information on interest rates but require endogenous growth models that are free from both scale effects and the strong influence of population growth. Such a model is constructed and EIS is estimated without information on interest rates. The result indicates that EIS at the macro level is as low as 0.09.

Keywords: The elasticity of intertemporal substitution; The degree of relative risk aversion; Production economy; Endogenous growth model (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D90 E10 O40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005-08-31
Note: Type of Document - pdf; pages: 26
View list of references View citations in EconPapers

Downloads: (external link)
http://129.3.20.41/eps/mac/papers/0508/0508030.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: http://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:wpa:wuwpma:0508030

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Macroeconomics from EconWPA
Series data maintained by EconWPA ().