Endogenous growth with addictive habits

Emmanuelle Augeraud-Véron and Mauro Bambi ()

Journal of Mathematical Economics, 2015, vol. 56, issue C, 15-25

Abstract: In this paper, we investigate the global dynamics of an endogenous growth model with linear technology and addictive habits. We find feasible parameters’ conditions under which: (a) the resulting equilibrium consumption path is steeper than in a standard AK model; (b) endogenous fluctuations in the form of damping fluctuations around the balanced growth path emerge; (c) the Easterlin’s paradox emerges. The relevance of these results is explained comparing our findings with the results already known in the existing literature.

Keywords: Habit formation; Consumption smoothing; Endogenous fluctuations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jmateco.2014.11.002

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