The attention trap: rational inattention, inequality, and fiscal policy
I show that if it is costly for households to process information about asset returns, a model with ex-ante identical households features persistent inequality. The steady state has a two-agent structure, with inequality maintained by a complementarity between attention and wealth: wealthy household...
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University of Oxford
2021
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