NEW INSIGHTS FROM THE CANONICAL RAMSEY–CASS–KOOPMANS GROWTH MODEL

Eric Nævdal

Macroeconomic Dynamics, 2021, vol. 25, issue 6, 1569-1577

Abstract: The present article presents novel results on the Ramsey–Cass–Koopmans growth model. It is shown that the shadow price of capital goes to infinity as the capital stock goes to zero even if all functions are bounded with finite derivatives and that imposing the Inada condition of infinite derivative of the per capita production function at zero stock is irrelevant. It is also shown that unless marginal utility at zero consumption is infinity, there will be a non-empty interval where the Keynes–Ramsey rule does not hold. The paper also shows that the stable saddle path in a phase diagram with the state variable and the shadow price has an unrecognized economic interpretation that enables us to illustrate the value function as the integral of the stable saddle path.

Date: 2021
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