Endogenous strategic business cycles

成果类型:
Article
署名作者:
Goenka, A; Kelly, DL; Spear, SE
署名单位:
University of Essex; University of Miami; Carnegie Mellon University
刊物名称:
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC THEORY
ISSN/ISSBN:
0022-0531
DOI:
10.1006/jeth.1997.2380
发表日期:
1998
页码:
97-125
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摘要:
This paper examines an overlapping generations version of the Shapley-Shubik market game. We show existence of equilibria for the simple one commodity model and analyze the dynamics of the equilibrium trajectories generated in the model. Because of the non-linearities generated by strategic interaction of agents in the model, we find that complex and chaotic equilibrium dynamics are possible in this model for a much broader range of preferences than those for which Grandmont (Econometrica 53, No. 5 (1995), 995-1045) found complicated dynamics in the perfectly competitive version of this model. These results, then, provide an alternative to the usual technology-based explanation for the historical fact that business cycles became an important economic phenomenon only with the onset of industrialization. (C) 1998 Academic Press.