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Andrea Lanteri

Associate Professor of Economics
Economics
Box 90097, Durham, NC 27708-0097
231 Social Sciences, Box 90097, Durham, NC 27708-0097

Scholarly Works - Scholarly editions


The market for used capital: Endogenous irreversibility and reallocation over the business cycle

Scholarly edition · September 1, 2018 This paper studies the business- cycle dynamics of secondary markets for physical capital and their effects on the macroeconomy. In the data, both capital reallocation and the price of used capital are procyclical. To rationalize these facts, I propose a m ... Full text Open Access Cite

Fiscal Policy with Limited-Time Commitment

Scholarly edition · June 1, 2018 Cite

Capital Specificity, the Distribution of Marginal Products and Aggregate Productivity

Scholarly edition · 2017 This paper studies the role of capital specificity and investment irreversibility on the distribution of marginal products of capital and aggregate TFP. We use a methodology new to the misallocation literature, based on the study of “mobility” across qu ... Cite

Optimal Policy with General Signal Extraction

Scholarly edition · September 26, 2016 Featured Publication This paper studies optimal policy with partial information in a general setup where observed signals are endogenous to policy. In this case, signal extraction about the state of the economy cannot be separated from the determination of the optimal policy. ... Open Access Cite

Optimal Policy with Endogenous Signal Extraction

Scholarly edition · 2014 This paper studies optimal policy in models with multidimensional uncertainty and endogenous observables. We first consider a very general setup where the policy-maker does not observe the realisations of the shocks that hit the economy, but only some aggr ... Cite