Arbeitspapier

Determinacy Through Intertemporal Capital Adjustment Costs

It is well known that if mild sector–specific externalities are considered, then the steady state of the standard two-sector real business cycle model can become locally indeterminate and endogenous business cycles can arise. We show that this result is not robust to the introduction of standard intertemporal capital adjustment costs, which may accrue when total capital is adjusted or when each sector’s capital is adjusted. We find for both forms of adjustment costs that the steady state is determinate for all empirically plausible parameter values. We also find that determinacy occurs for a much larger range of parameter values when adjusting each sector’s capital is costly.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: IEHAS Discussion Papers ; No. MT-DP - 2002/9

Classification
Wirtschaft
Subject
capital adjustment costs
determinacy
local indeterminacy
local stability
sector-specific externality

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Herrendorf, Berthold
Valentinyi, Akos
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Economics
(where)
Budapest
(when)
2002

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  • Arbeitspapier

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  • Herrendorf, Berthold
  • Valentinyi, Akos
  • Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Economics

Time of origin

  • 2002

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