Computation of Equilibria in OLG Models with Many Heterogeneous Households

This paper develops a decomposition algorithm by which a market economy with many households may be solved through the computation of equilibria for a sequence of representative agent economies. The paper examines local and global convergence properties of the sequential recalibration (SR) algorithm...

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Main Authors: Rausch, Sebastian (Contributor), Rutherford, Thomas Fox (Author)
Other Authors: MIT Energy Initiative (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Netherlands, 2011-11-16T13:51:14Z.
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