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International Robust Disagreement

Riccardo Colacito, Mariano M. Croce

American Economic Review · 2012 · Volume 102 · Issue 3

DOI: 10.1257/aer.102.3.152

Abstract

We characterize the equilibrium of a two-country, two-good economy in which agents have opposite preference bias toward one of the two consumption goods and fear model misspecification. We document that disagreement about endowments' growth prospects is a persistent endogenous outcome of this class of economies.

Keywords

Consumer Economics: Theory, Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty, Search, Learning, Information and Knowledge, Communication, Belief

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