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  • eu eastern enlargement and foreign investment implications from a Neoclassical Growth Model
    Journal of Comparative Economics, 2008
    Co-Authors: Kateryna Garmel, Lilia Maliar, Serguei Maliar
    Abstract:

    In this paper, we study how eastward enlargement of the EU may affect the economies of old and new EU members and non-accession countries in the context of a multi-country Neoclassical Growth Model where foreign investment is subject to border costs. We assume that at the moment of the EU enlargement border costs between the old and new EU member states are eliminated but remain unchanged between the old EU member states and the non-accession countries. In a calibrated version of the Model, the short-run effects of the EU enlargement proved to be relatively small for all the economies considered. The long-run effects are however significant: in the accession countries, investors from the old EU member states become permanent owners of about 3/4 of capital, while in the non-accession countries, they are forced out of business by local producers. Journal of Comparative Economics 36 (2) (2008) 307–325.

  • INDETERMINACY IN A LOG-LINEARIZED Neoclassical Growth Model WITH QUASI- GEOMETRIC DISCOUNTING*
    Economic Modelling, 2006
    Co-Authors: Lilia Maliar, Serguei Maliar
    Abstract:

    This paper studies the properties of solutions to a log–linearized version of the Neoclassical Growth Model with quasi-geometric discounting. We show that after the log–linearization, the Model has indeterminacy and multiplicity of equilibria even though the original non-linear Model has a unique interior solution. Specifically, in both the deterministic and stochastic cases, the log–linearized Model has a continuum of steady states. In the deterministic case, there is a unique log–linear policy function leading to each steady state, while in the stochastic case, there is a continuum of log–linear policy functions, associated with each steady state. We show that the constructed log–linear solutions cannot be ranked across the entire state space.

  • The Neoclassical Growth Model with Heterogeneous Quasi-Geometric Consumers
    Journal of Money Credit and Banking, 2006
    Co-Authors: Lilia Maliar, Serguei Maliar
    Abstract:

    This paper investigates how the assumption of quasi-geometric (hyperbolic) discounting affects the distributional implications of the standard one-sector Neoclassical Growth Model with infinitely lived heterogeneous agents. The agents are subject to idiosyncratic shocks and face borrowing constraints. We confine attention to an interior Markov recursive equilibrium. The consequence of quasi-geometric discounting is that the effective discount factor of an agent is not a constant, but an endogenous variable which depends on the agent’s current state. We show, both analytically and by simulation, that this new feature can significantly affect the distributional implications of the Neoclassical Growth Model.

  • solving the Neoclassical Growth Model with quasi geometric discounting a grid based euler equation method
    Computing in Economics and Finance, 2005
    Co-Authors: Lilia Maliar, Serguei Maliar
    Abstract:

    The standard Neoclassical Growth Model with quasi-geometric discounting is shown elsewhere (Krusell, P. and Smith, A., CEPR Discussion Paper No. 2651, 2000) to have multiple solutions. As a result, value-iterative methods fail to converge. The set of equilibria is however reduced if we restrict our attention to the interior (satisfying the Euler equation) solution. We study the performance of a grid-based Euler-equation methods in the given context. We find that such a method converges to an interior solution in a wide range of parameter values, not only in the "test" Model with the closed-form solution but also in more general settings, including those with uncertainty.

  • income and wealth distributions along the business cycle implications from the Neoclassical Growth Model
    B E Journal of Macroeconomics, 2005
    Co-Authors: Lilia Maliar, Serguei Maliar, Juan Mora
    Abstract:

    This paper studies the business cycle dynamics of the income and wealth distributions in the context of the Neoclassical Growth Model where agents are heterogeneous in initial wealth and non-acquired skills. Our economy admits a representative consumer which enables us to characterize the distributive dynamics by aggregate dynamics. We show that inequality in both wealth and income follows a counter-cyclical pattern: the former is counter-cyclical because of cyclical fluctuations in labor income, while the latter is counter-cyclical due to the wealth-distribution effect. We find that the predictions of the Model about the income distribution dynamics accord well with the U.S. data.

Lilia Maliar - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • eu eastern enlargement and foreign investment implications from a Neoclassical Growth Model
    Journal of Comparative Economics, 2008
    Co-Authors: Kateryna Garmel, Lilia Maliar, Serguei Maliar
    Abstract:

    In this paper, we study how eastward enlargement of the EU may affect the economies of old and new EU members and non-accession countries in the context of a multi-country Neoclassical Growth Model where foreign investment is subject to border costs. We assume that at the moment of the EU enlargement border costs between the old and new EU member states are eliminated but remain unchanged between the old EU member states and the non-accession countries. In a calibrated version of the Model, the short-run effects of the EU enlargement proved to be relatively small for all the economies considered. The long-run effects are however significant: in the accession countries, investors from the old EU member states become permanent owners of about 3/4 of capital, while in the non-accession countries, they are forced out of business by local producers. Journal of Comparative Economics 36 (2) (2008) 307–325.

  • INDETERMINACY IN A LOG-LINEARIZED Neoclassical Growth Model WITH QUASI- GEOMETRIC DISCOUNTING*
    Economic Modelling, 2006
    Co-Authors: Lilia Maliar, Serguei Maliar
    Abstract:

    This paper studies the properties of solutions to a log–linearized version of the Neoclassical Growth Model with quasi-geometric discounting. We show that after the log–linearization, the Model has indeterminacy and multiplicity of equilibria even though the original non-linear Model has a unique interior solution. Specifically, in both the deterministic and stochastic cases, the log–linearized Model has a continuum of steady states. In the deterministic case, there is a unique log–linear policy function leading to each steady state, while in the stochastic case, there is a continuum of log–linear policy functions, associated with each steady state. We show that the constructed log–linear solutions cannot be ranked across the entire state space.

  • The Neoclassical Growth Model with Heterogeneous Quasi-Geometric Consumers
    Journal of Money Credit and Banking, 2006
    Co-Authors: Lilia Maliar, Serguei Maliar
    Abstract:

    This paper investigates how the assumption of quasi-geometric (hyperbolic) discounting affects the distributional implications of the standard one-sector Neoclassical Growth Model with infinitely lived heterogeneous agents. The agents are subject to idiosyncratic shocks and face borrowing constraints. We confine attention to an interior Markov recursive equilibrium. The consequence of quasi-geometric discounting is that the effective discount factor of an agent is not a constant, but an endogenous variable which depends on the agent’s current state. We show, both analytically and by simulation, that this new feature can significantly affect the distributional implications of the Neoclassical Growth Model.

  • solving the Neoclassical Growth Model with quasi geometric discounting a grid based euler equation method
    Computing in Economics and Finance, 2005
    Co-Authors: Lilia Maliar, Serguei Maliar
    Abstract:

    The standard Neoclassical Growth Model with quasi-geometric discounting is shown elsewhere (Krusell, P. and Smith, A., CEPR Discussion Paper No. 2651, 2000) to have multiple solutions. As a result, value-iterative methods fail to converge. The set of equilibria is however reduced if we restrict our attention to the interior (satisfying the Euler equation) solution. We study the performance of a grid-based Euler-equation methods in the given context. We find that such a method converges to an interior solution in a wide range of parameter values, not only in the "test" Model with the closed-form solution but also in more general settings, including those with uncertainty.

  • income and wealth distributions along the business cycle implications from the Neoclassical Growth Model
    B E Journal of Macroeconomics, 2005
    Co-Authors: Lilia Maliar, Serguei Maliar, Juan Mora
    Abstract:

    This paper studies the business cycle dynamics of the income and wealth distributions in the context of the Neoclassical Growth Model where agents are heterogeneous in initial wealth and non-acquired skills. Our economy admits a representative consumer which enables us to characterize the distributive dynamics by aggregate dynamics. We show that inequality in both wealth and income follows a counter-cyclical pattern: the former is counter-cyclical because of cyclical fluctuations in labor income, while the latter is counter-cyclical due to the wealth-distribution effect. We find that the predictions of the Model about the income distribution dynamics accord well with the U.S. data.

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  • Equilibrium portfolios in the Neoclassical Growth Model
    Journal of Economic Theory, 2007
    Co-Authors: Emilio Espino
    Abstract:

    Abstract This paper studies equilibrium portfolios in the standard Neoclassical Growth Model under uncertainty with heterogeneous agents and dynamically complete markets. Preferences are purposely restricted to be quasi-homothetic. The main source of heterogeneity across agents is due to different endowments of shares of the representative firm at date 0. Fixing portfolios is the optimal equilibrium strategy in stationary endowment economies with dynamically complete markets. However, when the environment displays changing degrees of heterogeneity across agents, the trading strategy of fixed portfolios cannot be optimal in equilibrium. Very importantly, our framework can generate changing heterogeneity if and only if either minimum consumption requirements are not zero or labor income is not zero and the value of human and non-human wealth are linearly independent.

  • Equilibrium Portfolios in the Neoclassical Growth Model
    2006
    Co-Authors: Emilio Espino
    Abstract:

    This paper studies equilibrium portfolios in the standard Neoclassical Growth Model under uncertainty with heterogeneous agents and dynamically complete markets. Preferences are purposely restricted to be quasi-homothetic. The main source of heterogeneity across agents is due to different endowments of shares of the representative firm at date 0. Fixing portfolios is the optimal strategy in stationary endowment economies with dynamically complete markets. Whenever an environment displays changing degrees of heterogeneity across agents, the trading strategy of fixed portfolios cannot be optimal in equilibrium. Very importantly, our framework can generate changing heterogeneity if and only if either minimum consumption requirements are not zero or labor income is not zero and the value of human and non-human wealth are linearly independent

  • On Ramsey's Conjecture: Efficient Allocations in the Neoclassical Growth Model with Private Information
    Journal of Economic Theory, 2005
    Co-Authors: Emilio Espino
    Abstract:

    Abstract In his seminal paper of 1928, Ramsey conjectured that if agents discounted the future differently, in the long run all agents except the most patient would live at the subsistence level. The validity of this conjecture was investigated in different environments. In particular, it has been confirmed in the Neoclassical Growth Model with dynamically complete markets. This paper studies this conjecture in a version of this Model that includes private information and heterogeneous agents. A version of Bayesian implementation is introduced and a recursive formulation of the original allocation problem is established. Efficient allocations are renegotiation-proof and the expected utility of any agent cannot go to zero with positive probability if the economy does not collapse. If the economy collapses all agents will get zero consumption forever. Thus, including any degree of private information in the Neoclassical Growth Model will deny Ramsey's conjecture, if efficient allocations are considered.