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10 - Endogenous Growth Cycles with or without Price Flexibility

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 November 2023

Peter Skott
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University of Massachusetts, Amherst
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The baseline model in this chapter combines destabilizing Keynesian-Harrodian mechanisms with feedback effects from the labor market to firms’ output and investment decisions. The aggregation of micro-level output and investment decisions is analyzed explicitly and, following a Keynes-Marshall tradition, prices and profit shares adjust to clear the goods market. The flex-price assumption is empirically motivated: evidence shows that goods prices are much more flexible than commonly believed. The model produces limit cycles around a locally unstable steady growth path. A variant of the model that may fit parts of the service sector takes output as perfectly flexible, while the real wage is fixed. The reduced-form relations and dynamic patterns of this variant are virtually identical to those of the flex-price model, suggesting that these reduced-form equations may be a good starting point for analyzing business cycles in the aggregate economy. Reinforcing this conclusion, simulations of an extended version that uses empirically plausible parameters and includes fiscal and monetary policy shows a remarkable correspondence to cyclical patterns for the US.

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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