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Growth and Bubbles with Consumption Externalities

Growth and Bubbles with Consumption Externalities Abstract This paper explores the role of consumption externalities in an overlapping generations economy with capital accumulation. If consumers in each generation are concerned with other agents’ consumption behaviours, there exist intergenerational as well as intragenerational consumption externalities. It is the presence of intergenreational consumption externalities that may produce fundamental effects both on equilibrium dynamics and on steady-state characterization of the economy. This paper demonstrates this fact in the context of a simple model of endogenously growing, overlapping-generations economy with or without asset bubbles. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Japanese Economic Review Springer Journals

Growth and Bubbles with Consumption Externalities

The Japanese Economic Review , Volume 59 (1): 21 – Mar 1, 2008

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Publisher
Springer Journals
Copyright
2008 Japanese Economic Association
ISSN
1352-4739
eISSN
1468-5876
DOI
10.1111/j.1468-5876.2007.00442.x
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Abstract

Abstract This paper explores the role of consumption externalities in an overlapping generations economy with capital accumulation. If consumers in each generation are concerned with other agents’ consumption behaviours, there exist intergenerational as well as intragenerational consumption externalities. It is the presence of intergenreational consumption externalities that may produce fundamental effects both on equilibrium dynamics and on steady-state characterization of the economy. This paper demonstrates this fact in the context of a simple model of endogenously growing, overlapping-generations economy with or without asset bubbles.

Journal

The Japanese Economic ReviewSpringer Journals

Published: Mar 1, 2008

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

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