TY - JOUR
T1 - Indeterminacy and sunspots with constant returns
AU - Benhabib, Jess
AU - Nishimura, Kazuo
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank Jordi Gali, Stephanie Schmitt Grohe, Sharon Harrison, Takashi Kamihigashi, Levent Kockesen, and Roberto Perli for very useful discussions and comments. Technical support from the C.V. Starr Center for Applied Economics at New York University is gratefully acknowledged.
PY - 1998/7
Y1 - 1998/7
N2 - We show that indeterminacy can easily arise in multisector models that have constant variable returns to scale and very small market imperfections. This is in sharp contrast to models that require increasing returns to generate indeterminacy and which have been criticized on the basis of recent empirical estimates indicating that returns to scale are roughly constant and that market imperfections are small. We also show that we can calibrate our constant returns model with sunspots, using standard parametrizations to produce a close match to the moments of aggregate consumption, investment, output, and employment in US data. Journal of Economic Literature Classification Numbers: E00, E3, O40.
AB - We show that indeterminacy can easily arise in multisector models that have constant variable returns to scale and very small market imperfections. This is in sharp contrast to models that require increasing returns to generate indeterminacy and which have been criticized on the basis of recent empirical estimates indicating that returns to scale are roughly constant and that market imperfections are small. We also show that we can calibrate our constant returns model with sunspots, using standard parametrizations to produce a close match to the moments of aggregate consumption, investment, output, and employment in US data. Journal of Economic Literature Classification Numbers: E00, E3, O40.
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U2 - 10.1006/jeth.1998.2414
DO - 10.1006/jeth.1998.2414
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0002573074
SN - 0022-0531
VL - 81
SP - 58
EP - 96
JO - Journal of Economic Theory
JF - Journal of Economic Theory
IS - 1
ER -