Imperfect competition and indeterminacy of aggregate output

Pengfei Wang and Yi Wen

No 2006-017, Working Papers from Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Abstract: This paper shows imperfect competition can lead to indeterminacy in aggregate output in a standard DSGE model with imperfect competition. Indeterminacy arises in the model from the composition of aggregate output. In sharp contrast to the indeterminacy literature pioneered by Benhabib and Farmer [3] and Gali [19], indeterminacy in our model is global; hence it is more robust to structural parameters. In addition, sunspots in our model can be autocorrelated. The paper provides a justification for exogenous variations in desired markups, which play an important role as a source of cost-push shocks in the monetary policy literature. Our model outperforms a standard RBC model driven by technology shocks in several dimensions, including the volatility of labor market and the hump-shaped output dynamics.

Keywords: Prices; Business cycles (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.20955/wp.2006.017

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