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Limits to redistribution and intertemporal wedges : implications of Pareto optimality with private information
Abstract: Numerous recent studies on macroeconomic policy--including monetary policy and tax policy--have incorporated private information in their models of the economy. In such models, characterization of Pareto-optimal allocations is an important step of analysis. In this article, we study Pareto optima in a simple model economy with heterogeneous agents. We characterize and compare all Pareto-optimal allocations both with and without private information. We also demonstrate the limits to redistribution and intertemporal distortions that arise as implications of Pareto optimality with private information.
Keywords: Macroeconomics; Monetary policy;
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Provider: Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
Part of Series: Economic Quarterly
Publication Date: 2008
Volume: 94
Issue: Spr
Pages: 173-196