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Typos in Math of "Information and Consumption Smoothing"

Open spspitze opened this issue 4 years ago • 2 comments

Small issues in the math of Information and Consumption Smoothing.

  • It says

which confirms that {a_t} is a serially uncorrelated process with variance σ^2_a=β^{−1}σ^2_ε.

when this should be β^{−2}.

  • For the alternative calculation of σ^2_a, it says "σ^2_ε + ..." when I think this should be "σ^2_ε \times ...". This also should equal β^{−2}σ^2_ε

Hope this helps. Thanks.

spspitze avatar Jul 01 '20 04:07 spspitze

Many thanks @spspitze . Will investigate when I have a bit of time.

(If you're willing to put in a PR that corrects those typos we would be very grateful.)

jstac avatar Jul 01 '20 05:07 jstac

Hi. Thanks. I will fix tomorrow in Montana.

On Tue, Jun 30, 2020, 10:13 PM Scott Spitze [email protected] wrote:

Small issues in the math of Information and Consumption Smoothing.

  • It says

which confirms that {a_t} is a serially uncorrelated process with variance σ^2_a=β^{−1}σ^2_ε.

when this should be β^{−2}.

  • For the alternative calculation of σ^2_a, it says "σ^2_ε + ..." when I think this should be "σ^2_ε \times ...". This also should equal β^{−2}σ^2_ε

Hope this helps. Thanks.

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thomassargent30 avatar Jul 01 '20 05:07 thomassargent30