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Fragile beliefs and the price of uncertainty

L. Hansen T. Sargent

Abstrak

A representative consumer uses Bayes’ law to learn about parameters of several models and to construct probabilities with which to perform ongoing model averaging. The arrival of signals induces the consumer to alter his posterior distribution over models and parameters. The consumer’s specification doubts induce him to slant probabilities pessimistically. The pessimistic probabilities tilt toward a model that puts long-run risks into consumption growth. That contributes a countercyclical history-dependent component to prices of risk. Keywords. Learning, Bayes’ law, robustness, risk sensitivity, pessimism, prices of risk. JEL classification. C11, C44, C72, E44, G12.

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Hansen, L., Sargent, T. (2010). Fragile beliefs and the price of uncertainty. https://doi.org/10.3982/QE9

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Informasi Jurnal
Tahun Terbit
2010
Bahasa
en
Total Sitasi
210×
Sumber Database
Semantic Scholar
DOI
10.3982/QE9
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Open Access ✓