Lucas’s model shows that the consumption value that individuals will agree to pay for completely cancelling volatility—for convenience, let’s call it the “insurance premium for nonvolatile consumption"—is near zero. This means that the value to the consumer of smoothing consumption is negligible, and we can theoretically conclude that there is no tremendous value to a stabilizing policy.
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