RT Report T1 It’s a small small welfare cost of fluctuations A1 Portier, Franck A1 Puch González, Luis Antonio AB Lucas [1987] has shown that in a representative agent framework, the potential welfare gain from stabilizing consumption around its mean is small. We provide an example and some insight for why Lucas’ measure is an upper bound of the welfare cost of fluctuations in walrasian economies. PB Instituto Complutense de Análisis Económico. Universidad Complutense de Madrid YR 2005 FD 2005 LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/56634 UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/56634 LA eng DS Docta Complutense RD 22 abr 2025