Arbeitspapier

Time preference and dynamic stability in an N-country world economy

We examine stability of competitive equilibrium in an N-country world economy with capital accumulation, where each country can have either increasing marginal impatience (IMI) or decreasing marginal impatience (DMI). The necessary and sufficient condition for stability is shown as positive definiteness of a simple matrix. The condition requires that any positive perturbation in one country's wealth, adjusted for international spill-over effects on other country's savings, reduces the country's wealth accumulation. In the presence of a DMI country, the number of countries should be sufficiently small for stability. Particularly, the existence of two or more than two DMI countries implies instablility.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: ISER Discussion Paper ; No. 887

Classification
Wirtschaft
Open Economy Macroeconomics
Current Account Adjustment; Short-term Capital Movements
Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics: General
Subject
stability
decreasing marginal impatience
N-country economy

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Hirose, Ken-Ichi
Ikeda, Shinsuke
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Osaka University, Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
(where)
Osaka
(when)
2013

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  • Arbeitspapier

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  • Hirose, Ken-Ichi
  • Ikeda, Shinsuke
  • Osaka University, Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)

Time of origin

  • 2013

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