MARTIN JENSEN Martin.Jensen@nottingham.ac.uk
Chair in Economics
Distributional Comparative Statics
Jensen, Martin Kaae
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Abstract
Distributional comparative statics is the study of how individual decisions and equilibrium outcomes vary with changes in the distribution of economic parameters (income, wealth, productivity, information, etc.). This article develops new tools to address such issues and illustrates their usefulness in applications. The central development is a condition called quasi-concave differences, which implies concavity of the policy function in optimization problems without imposing differentiability or quasi-concavity conditions. The general take-away is that many distributional questions in economics which cannot be solved by direct calculations or the implicit function theorem, can be addressed easily with this article’s methods. Several applications demonstrate this: the article shows how increased uncertainty affects the set of equilibria in Bayesian games; it shows how increased dispersion of productivities affects output in the model of Melitz (2003); and it generalizes Carroll and Kimball (1996)’s result on concave consumption functions to the Aiyagari (1994) setting with borrowing constraints.
Citation
Jensen, M. K. (2018). Distributional Comparative Statics. Review of Economic Studies, 85(1), 581-610. https://doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdx021
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | May 1, 2017 |
Online Publication Date | May 17, 2017 |
Publication Date | Jan 1, 2018 |
Deposit Date | Jun 22, 2020 |
Publicly Available Date | Jun 22, 2020 |
Journal | Review of Economic Studies |
Print ISSN | 0034-6527 |
Electronic ISSN | 1467-937X |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 85 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 581-610 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1093/restud/rdx021 |
Public URL | https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/4701062 |
Publisher URL | https://academic.oup.com/restud/article-abstract/85/1/581/3829690?redirectedFrom=fulltext |
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