Gomme, Paul - Department of Economics, Concordia University - 2008
interest rate. In the corresponding life-cycle model, the optimal inflation rate is quite high: for the benchmark calibration … model. Metrics that are equivalent in the representative agent model can give very different answers in a life-cycle model. …, it is around 95% per annum. Much of the paper is concerned with understanding this result. Briefly, in the life-cycle …