Julio Davila () (CERMSEM - CEntre de Recherche en Mathématiques, Statistique et Économie Mathématique - CNRS : UMR8095 - Université Panthéon-Sorbonne - Paris I, European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics (ECARES) - Université Libre de Bruxelles) Jay H. Hong () (University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics) Per Krusell () (CAERP - Centro Atlantico de Estudios Rios Perez) José-Victor Rios Rull () (University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics, CAERP - Centro Atlantico de Estudios Rios Perez)
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We investigate the welfare properties of the one-sctor neoclassic growth model with uninsurable idiosyncratic shocks. We focus on the constrained efficiency notion of the general equiibrium literature, and we demonstrate constrained inefficiency for our model. We provide a characterization of constrained efficiency that uses the first-order condition of a constrained planner's problem that points to the margins of relevance for whether capital is too high or too low : the income composition of the (consumption) poor. We calibrate our benchmark model parameters governing idiosyncratic risks to the U.S. earnings and wealth distribution, and for this distribution the income of the poor is mainly composed of labor earnings. We compute the constrained-efficient allocations -including transition dynamics- for our model economy, and we conclude that the long-run capital stock in a laissez faire world is not only too low, but much too low. We also show that one can find parameterizations with different qualitative features : in one case, the steady-state capital stock is too high, and in another case no steady state exists.
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