A Welfare Criterion For Models With Distorted Beliefs

This article proposes a welfare criterion for economies in which agents have heterogeneously distorted beliefs. Instead of taking a stand on whose belief is correct, our criterion asserts that an allocation is belief-neutral efficient (inefficient) if it is efficient (inefficient) under any convex c...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Brunnermeier, Markus K., Simsek, Alp, Xiong, Wei
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Economics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Oxford University Press 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/103989
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0840-1848