We study the impact of time-varying macroeconomic conditions on optimal dynamic capital structure and the aggregate dynamics of firms in a cross-section. Our structural-equilibrium framework embeds a contingent-claim corporate financing model within a standard consumption-based asset- pricing...

We evaluate the labor supply response in a stochastic overlapping generations model with incomplete markets and a non separable utility function in labor and consumption. Using a simulated panel from the model, we calculate the labor supply response to anticipated changes in wages (holding the...

This paper studies the undiscounted utilitarian optimal paths of the canonicalDasgupta-Heal-Solow model when the stock of natural capital is a direct argument ofwell-being, besides consumption. We use a Keynes-Ramsey rule which yields a generalization of Hartwick?s rule : if society has a zero...