Competitive Equilibrium Cycles for Small Discounting in Discrete-Time Two-Sector Optimal Growth Models

Alain Venditti

No 1830, AMSE Working Papers from Aix-Marseille School of Economics, France

Abstract: We study the existence of endogenous competitive equilibrium cycles under small discounting in a two-sector discrete-time optimal growth model. We provide precise concavity conditions on the indirect utility function leading to the existence of period-two cycles with a critical value for the discount factor that can be arbitrarily close to one. Contrary to the continuous-time case where the existence of periodic-cycles is obtained if the degree of concavity is close to zero, we show that in a discrete-time setting the driving condition does not require a close to zero degree of concavity but a symmetry of the indirect utility function’s concavity properties with respect to its two arguments.

Keywords: two-sector optimal growth model; small discounting; period-two cycles; strong and weak concavity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C62 E32 O41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 23 pages
Date: 2018-11
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