Contradictory to conventional economic theory, which foresees any increase in the size of government as inflationary, this article provides evidence that the reaction of price levels to changes in the size of government is nonlinear. The price levels do not necessarily increase in response to a...

We introduce a novel framework for individual-level welfare analysis. It builds on a parametric model for continuous demand with a quasilinear utility function, allowing for heterogeneous coefficients and unobserved individual-good-level preference shocks. We obtain bounds on the...

Two separate branches of research have shown the empirical benefits of nonlinearities in macroeconomic models and bounded rationality, respectively. This paper bridges these literatures by developing a methodology for estimating DSGE models when expectations are formed by adaptive learning...