Rationality and Cycles in the Multiplier- Accelerator Model

J. P. Laffargue and Pierre Malgrange
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J. P. Laffargue: University Of Paris And Cepremap

Chapter 7 in Business Cycles, 1991, pp 157-182 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Our objective is to build a discrete time-dynamical model embodying intertemporal consumption and accumulation mechanisms as well as government intervention, but as simple and close to the macroeconometric practice as possible. We thus consider a closed economy involving three types of representative agents (firms, consumers, government) and four types of commodities (labour, all-purpose goods, operative capital, government bonds). There is no money. The all-purpose good is taken as numeraire. The (real) wage rate o> and the (real) interest rate r on bonds are supposed exogenously given at levels consistent with positive profits. Because of arbitrage condition between capital and bonds, the stock market value, q, of one unit of operative capital is the only flexible price. In this section we consider the intertemporal programme of the consumer.

Keywords: Government Spending; Rational Expectation; Public Debt; Public Spending; Private Consumption (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1991
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-11570-9_7

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