Qualitatively Rational Expectations and Adjustment in the Specific-Factors Model

Max Albert and Jürgen Meckl ()

Review of International Economics, 1998, vol. 6, issue 4, 670-82

Abstract: This paper considers adjustment in a dynamic specific-factors model with endogenous capital stocks. Investment is analyzed under the assumption that expectations are rational with respect to qualitative aspects of the adjustment process (qualitatively rational expectations, QRE). QRE leave considerable scope for systematic errors in expectations formation. Adjustment under rational expectations is similar to QRE adjustment; however, only in the former case is the speed of adjustment optimal. Overshooting of capital stocks is possible and may be optimal. Comparative-static analysis shows an asymmetry between inflows of labor and capital: only capital inflows may cause a Rybczynski effect. Copyright 1998 by Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

Date: 1998
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