{"title":"Generalizing heuristic switching models and a (boundedly) rational route away from randomness","authors":"Giorgos Galanis , Iraklis Kollias , Ioanis Leventides , Joep Lustenhouwer","doi":"10.1016/j.jedc.2025.105125","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jedc.2025.105125","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The behavioral economics literature on evolutionary discrete choice models typically relies on the standard logit framework. However, this approach imposes significant limitations on the types of economic environments it can represent as it, e.g., does not allow for heterogeneity in preferences regarding observables (random taste variation) and assumes independence of irrelevant alternatives (IIA). We relax the assumptions underlying standard logit and address two key questions: (i) to what extent do the theoretical insights of <span><span>Brock and Hommes (1997)</span></span> (BH) hold in more general economic settings? (ii) can the standard logit's shortcomings in capturing relevant experimental findings be resolved by using more flexible forms of discrete choice models? We find that a probit-based model that meaningfully relaxes the IIA assumption fits experimental data with four choice alternatives considerably better than standard logit, especially if the model additionally allows for random taste variation. Further, we demonstrate that while the key insights of BH remain valid in broader environments, allowing for taste variation can provide a route away from the chaotic dynamics emerging in BH.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48314,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control","volume":"177 ","pages":"Article 105125"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144114717","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rabah Amir , Dominika Machowska , Andrzej Nowakowski
{"title":"The sleeper effect of comparative advertising in oligopolistic markets","authors":"Rabah Amir , Dominika Machowska , Andrzej Nowakowski","doi":"10.1016/j.jedc.2025.105122","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jedc.2025.105122","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This research deals with comparative advertising strategies of firms in an oligopolistic market in the presence of the sleeper effect, through the lens of a differential game with time delay. We examine the open-loop Nash equilibrium and, for its validation, propose a new verification theorem that determines if a given strategy profile constitutes a Nash equilibrium. Our results reveal how the sleeper effect influences the equilibrium of comparative advertising strategies across two decision-making periods. Moreover, we highlight how market factors and firm attributes can significantly affect these strategies and derive conditions under which a firm will abstain from such strategies. Overall, our study provides novel insights into how market dynamics, firm attributes, and the sleeper effect interact in shaping comparative advertising strategies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48314,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control","volume":"177 ","pages":"Article 105122"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144106676","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A robust asymptotic control model to analyze climate policy with CDR options","authors":"Frédéric Babonneau , Alain Haurie , Marc Vielle","doi":"10.1016/j.jedc.2025.105114","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jedc.2025.105114","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>A three-region optimal economic growth model is proposed to represent the global energy transition to net-zero emissions when carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies are available. The main features of the model are (i) the representation of the economy and energy use with nested CES production functions; (ii) the representation of climate policy through the use of a safety cumulative emissions budget concept; and (iii) the introduction of an international emissions trading scheme for the implementation of climate policy. Using an infinite horizon optimal control paradigm, several contrasting scenarios are analyzed both in an asymptotic steady state or “turnpike” point, and in an optimal transition to sustainability. This very compact model produces dynamic path simulations that are consistent with the main recommendations from IPCC for long term climate policies. The potential use of this simple model in future developments in climate and economic modeling is discussed.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48314,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control","volume":"177 ","pages":"Article 105114"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144084124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The role of capital expansion in stock evaluation: A variance decomposition approach","authors":"Huixuan Li , Jing Chen , Manling Zhang , Ya Tang","doi":"10.1016/j.jedc.2025.105113","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jedc.2025.105113","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We extend Cohen et al.'s (2003) variance decomposition framework to examine cross-sectional stock valuation drivers across Chinese and U.S. markets by incorporating expected capital expansion as an additional component. Our analysis demonstrates that in China's A-share market, 32.8 percent of cross-sectional valuation dispersion is attributable to future capital expansion. This positive relationship is mirrored in the NASDAQ market but contrasts with the negative effect observed in the NYSE/AMEX market. In particular, capital expansion exhibits strong explanatory power for valuations of small firms, high-tech companies, and firms listed on China's growth-oriented ChiNext and STAR market segments. Our decomposition approach also measures price informativeness—the degree to which stock valuations reflect future cash flows. We find a significant improvement in the price informativeness of China's stock prices since 2005. These findings enhance our understanding of stock pricing dynamics in growth-oriented markets.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48314,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control","volume":"177 ","pages":"Article 105113"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143937941","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Intergenerational income mobility and income taxation","authors":"Musab Kurnaz , Mehmet A. Soytas","doi":"10.1016/j.jedc.2025.105111","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jedc.2025.105111","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We study the impact of income taxation on intergenerational income correlation. We estimate a life cycle dynastic model and conduct counterfactual analysis to observe the effects of various tax regimes. Compared to a no tax environment, a flat tax regime reduces the correlation only by one percentage points. If the flat tax regime provides child benefits, the correlation additionally declines by four percentage points. Finally, if the taxes are progressive, the reduction, which is due to the increase in the fertility rate (quantity) and the decrease in the educational outcome of children (quality), is highly significant (seven percentage points).</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48314,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control","volume":"176 ","pages":"Article 105111"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143887186","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dynamic trading strategies for storage","authors":"Sergei Balakin, Guillaume Roger","doi":"10.1016/j.jedc.2025.105110","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jedc.2025.105110","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We consider a dynamic model of an oligopolistic market with demand shocks, in which a storage unit buys and sells over time subject to a capacity constraint. To make progress in this stochastic game with constraints, we restrict attention to simple heuristics, and we can characterize the optimal policy of a storage unit in this restricted class of strategies. The heuristics, the exogenous stochastic process and the capacity constraint interact to induce rich dynamics. The optimal policy is sensitive to the nature of demand shocks and to storage capacity. For a fixed capacity, the storage unit internalizes its unilateral market power; it acts like a monopolist on its arbitrage spread. We uncover a new phenomenon that we call <em>continuation risk</em>. It is a corollary of market power and induces the optimal capacity to be interior even absent investment cost. We discuss some implications.</div><div>This work applies to any storable commodity such as crops, raw materials or fuels, and more recently, electricity.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48314,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control","volume":"176 ","pages":"Article 105110"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143881779","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Patent policy, invention and innovation in the theory of Schumpeterian growth","authors":"Michael A. Klein","doi":"10.1016/j.jedc.2025.105112","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jedc.2025.105112","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>I develop an endogenous growth model that separates firm decisions to invent, patent, and commercialize new innovations. I use the model to examine how multiple dimensions of patent policy impact economic growth by shaping these relative incentives. I pay particular attention to the role of patenting requirements that dictate how far along the development process an inventor must progress to obtain a patent. The model formalizes how strengthening such requirements generates competing effects on economic growth; stronger requirements reduce ex ante research incentives by increasing the expected cost of patenting, but increase ex post incentives to fully develop patented inventions into commercial innovations by decreasing the additional cost associated with commercialization. Overall, my analysis supports the use of stronger patenting requirements as an effective policy tool to improve economic outcomes by shifting incentives away from invention in the pursuit of patents and towards the development of commercial innovations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48314,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control","volume":"176 ","pages":"Article 105112"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143874414","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Financial conditions, business cycle fluctuations and growth-at-risk","authors":"Andrea Falconio, Simone Manganelli","doi":"10.1016/j.jedc.2025.105109","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jedc.2025.105109","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We augment a quantile vector autoregressive model with the interquartile range of economic growth, a robust proxy for volatility, to assess the relative importance of financial conditions and economic risk in affecting the business cycle. We find that economic risk displays an asymmetric effect on economic growth distribution, very much similar to financial conditions: they substantially increase growth-at-risk, but have limited impact on upside potential. We also document that the asymmetric impact of economic risk depends on the state of the economy and is substantially amplified in times of high economic risk, while remaining subdued in tranquil times.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48314,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control","volume":"176 ","pages":"Article 105109"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143868560","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Do search costs explain persistent investment in active mutual funds?","authors":"Aljoscha Janssen , Jurre Thiel","doi":"10.1016/j.jedc.2025.105099","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jedc.2025.105099","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Active funds, though losing market share since the 1990s, make up nearly half of all mutual funds but charge more without better performance. We analyze fund data and a search model, highlighting the impact of search costs and active fund preferences. From 1993 to 2018, reduced search costs expanded the market and heightened competition, while a preference shift from active to passive funds increased the latter's market share. However, investors who choose active funds, facing higher search costs, and continue to show a strong preference for them, allow these funds to keep charging higher fees.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48314,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control","volume":"176 ","pages":"Article 105099"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143828529","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Continuous-time persuasion by filtering","authors":"René Aïd , Ofelia Bonesini , Giorgia Callegaro , Luciano Campi","doi":"10.1016/j.jedc.2025.105100","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jedc.2025.105100","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We frame dynamic persuasion in a partial observation stochastic control Leader-Follower game with an ergodic criterion. The Receiver controls the dynamics of a multidimensional unobserved state process. Information is provided to the Receiver through a device designed by the Sender that generates the observation process. The commitment of the Sender is enforced. We develop this approach in the case where all dynamics are linear and the preferences of the Receiver are linear-quadratic. We prove a verification theorem for the existence and uniqueness of the solution of the HJB equation satisfied by the Receiver's value function. An extension to the case of persuasion of a mean field of interacting Receivers is also provided. We illustrate this approach in two applications: the provision of information to electricity consumers with a smart meter designed by an electricity producer; the information provided by carbon footprint accounting rules to companies engaged in a best-in-class emissions reduction effort. In the first application, we link the benefits of information provision to the mispricing of electricity production. In the latter, we show that even in the absence of information cost, it might be optimal for the regulator to blur information available to firms to prevent them from coordinating on a higher level of carbon footprint to reduce their cost of reaching a below average emission target.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48314,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Dynamics & Control","volume":"176 ","pages":"Article 105100"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143828530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}