The good, the bad and the worse: current, past and future consumption externalities and equilibrium efficiency
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The good, the bad and the worse: current, past and future consumption externalities and equilibrium efficiencyAutor(es)
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2022Cita bibliográfica
"Gómez, M. A. (2022). The good, the bad and the worse: current, past and future consumption externalities and equilibrium efficiency. Journal of Economics/ Zeitschrift fur Nationalokonomie, 137(3), 195-228. https://doi.org/10.1007/S00712-022-00788-6 "
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[Abstract]: We consider an Ak model in which instantaneous utility of the representative agent depends not only on current consumption, but also on a forward-looking external
reference level which is specified as an exponentially declining average of future
economy-wide average consumption. We show that the decentralized equilibrium is
never efficient irrespective of the specification of the utility function. This result
differs significantly from the implications of alternative specifications of the external
reference level: In case that the latter is given by contemporaneous average consumption,
the decentralized equilibrium is always efficient. However, if it is backward-
looking, then efficiency obtains only if the arguments of the utility function are
perfectly substitutable
Palabras chave
Consumption externalities
Efficiency
Anticipated consumption
Habits
Efficiency
Anticipated consumption
Habits
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Atribución 3.0 España
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1986-2020