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Capital-Labour Substitution and Endogenous Fluctuations: A Monopolistic Competition Approach with Variable Markup

Capital-Labour Substitution and Endogenous Fluctuations: A Monopolistic Competition Approach with... Abstract This paper analyses an overlapping generations model with endogenous product diversity where strategic interactions between producers are introduced; it examines how they affect the stability properties of the steady state. Because of free entry, strategic interactions between producers imply a new dynamic feature, markup variability, promoting indeterminacy and endogenous cycles. Indeed, in contrast to the model without strategic interaction, endogenous fluctuations can occur when the substitution between the production factors, capital and labour, is not too weak, but in accordance with empirical estimates. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Japanese Economic Review Springer Journals

Capital-Labour Substitution and Endogenous Fluctuations: A Monopolistic Competition Approach with Variable Markup

The Japanese Economic Review , Volume 60 (3): 19 – Sep 1, 2009

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Publisher
Springer Journals
Copyright
2008 Japanese Economic Association
ISSN
1352-4739
eISSN
1468-5876
DOI
10.1111/j.1468-5876.2008.00452.x
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Abstract

Abstract This paper analyses an overlapping generations model with endogenous product diversity where strategic interactions between producers are introduced; it examines how they affect the stability properties of the steady state. Because of free entry, strategic interactions between producers imply a new dynamic feature, markup variability, promoting indeterminacy and endogenous cycles. Indeed, in contrast to the model without strategic interaction, endogenous fluctuations can occur when the substitution between the production factors, capital and labour, is not too weak, but in accordance with empirical estimates.

Journal

The Japanese Economic ReviewSpringer Journals

Published: Sep 1, 2009

Keywords: economics, general; microeconomics; macroeconomics/monetary economics//financial economics; econometrics; development economics; economic history

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