Natural rate of unemployment and efficiency: a dynamic analysis with flexible prices and increasing returns
Gaël Giraud and
Céline Rochon ()
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Céline Rochon: Saïd Business School - University of Oxford
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Abstract:
We present a continuous time non-tatonnement process for frictionless and perfectly competitive markets with (possibly non-convex) production, where the natural rate of unemployment (NRU) emerges as the asymptotic value of unemployment. Consumers and producers are myopic and repeatedly participate in Mertens' (2003) limit-price mechanism. We show that underemployment and unsold inventories can survive along the solution paths of our dynamics - the hallmark of the failure of Say's law. The following paradox then appears: a non zero NRU is compatible with Pareto-optimality and conversely, full employment is compatible with sub-optimality. Nevertheless, contrary to the usual wisdom of job searching models, we show that a non-zero NRU is not necessary in order to get convergence towards an efficient rest-point. Indeed, each trade-and-production path of our price-quantity dynamics converges to some infinitesimal Pareto optimal point provided there are no unsold inventories at the limit.
Keywords: Underemployment; Say's law; inventories; non-convex production; Sous-emploi; loi de Say; inventaires; production non-convexe (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007-04
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Working Paper: Natural rate of unemployment and efficiency: A dynamic analysis with flexible prices and increasing returns (2008) 
Working Paper: Natural rate of unemployment and efficiency: A dynamic analysis with flexible prices and increasing returns (2008) 
Working Paper: Natural rate of unemployment and efficiency: a dynamic analysis with flexible prices and increasing returns (2007) 
Working Paper: Natural rate of unemployment and efficiency: a dynamic analysis with flexible prices and increasing returns (2007) 
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