Lotteries for Consumers versus Lotteries for Firms

• Edward C. Prescott emphasizes similarities between lotteries that smooth nonconvexities for firms and for consumers–workers. We emphasize their differences. We also argue that models with employment lotteries that are used to generate unemployed individuals in a frictionless framework can have implications very different from those of models embodying frictional unemployment. As an illustration, models with employment lotteries predict effects from job destruction taxes that are the opposite of those in search models.

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SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Ekonomi och näringsliv -- Nationalekonomi (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Economics and Business -- Economics (hsv//eng)

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