This paper presents an intergenerational model of self-selection of migration and education that is capable of explaining the evolution of earnings and education across three different generations of immigrants. By structurally estimating the model it is possible to quantify the human capital...

in both a simple analytic model, where news shocks overcome the ``dynamic inconsistencies" documented in Estrella and Fuhrer (2002), and in a model that incorporates many of the real rigidities common to DSGE models. The paper calls for more thoughtful modeling of how information about...

Using a dynamic factor model, we uncover four main empirical regularities on international comovements in a long-run panel of real and nominal variables. First, the contribution of world comovements to domestic output growth has decreased over the post-WWII period. The contribution of regional...

of reputation building converges to a level strictly between 0 and 1. However, the two limiting cases differ in the number of third party signals invoked.

linear hidden action preferences exhibiting a preference for late resolution of uncertainty. The costly contemplation model (Ergin and Sarver (2008a)), as well as a generalization of the Kreps and Porteus (1978) model that allows for preference for flexibility in the sense of DLR (2001) are also...

and search for a difference in the pattern of environmental quality when technological progress is taken to be endogenous by extending Brock and Taylor (2003). Brock and Taylor define pollution production and abatement explicitly by considering pollution as an output of both production and...

data support the model predictions.

Capacity addition and withdrawal decisions are among the most important strategic decisions made by firms in oligopolistic industries. In this paper, we develop and analyze a fully dynamic model of an oligopolistic industry with lumpy capacity and lumpy investment/disinvestment. We use our model...

rational expectations.

We analyze the impact of heterogeneous beliefs in economies where agents have recursive preferences of the Kreps-Porteus type and differ in their subjective beliefs about the distributions of future quantities. We show that the set of Pareto optimal allocations is given as a solution to a...