 Computing time-consistent equilibria: A perturbation approachJournal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 2022, vol. 137, issue C Abstract: Time-consistency is a key feature of many important policy problems, such as those relating to optimal fiscal policy, optimal monetary policy, macro-prudential policy, and sovereign lending. It is also important for private-sector decision-making through mechanisms such as quasi-geometric discounting. These problems are generally solved using some form of projection method. The difficulty with projection methods is that their computational complexity increases rapidly with the number of state variables, limiting the sophistication of the models that can be solved. This paper develops a perturbation method for solving models with time-inconsistency. The method operates on a model’s (generalized) Euler equations; it does not require forming a quadratic approximation to household welfare and it does not require that the model’s steady state be efficient. We illustrate the method and its applicability to different environments by applying it to a range of models featuring time-inconsistency. Keywords: Time-consistent equilibrium; Monetary policy; Fiscal policy; Quasi-geometric discounting (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:dyncon:v:137:y:2022:i:c:s0165188922000549 DOI: 10.1016/j.jedc.2022.104349 Access Statistics for this article Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control is currently edited by J. Bullard, C. Chiarella, H. Dawid, C. H. Hommes, P. Klein and C. Otrok More articles in Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control from Elsevier |
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