We propose a production-cost smoothing model with Knightian uncertainty and ambiguityaversion to study the joint behavior of production, inventories, and sales. Our model canexplain four facts that previous studies find difficult to account for simultaneously: (i) the highvolatility of...

This paper studies attention allocation behavior of rationally inattentive consumers who have CRRA preferences, face uninsured capital income risk, and suffer from an information-processing capacity constraint. For given attention devoted to capital income risk, we solve for the optimal...

This paper studies the consumption-savings behavior of households who have risk-sensitive preferences and suffer from limited information-processing capacity (rational inattention or RI). We first solve the model explicitly and show that RI increases precautionary savings by interacting with...