Internal Rationality, Heterogeneity, and Complexity in the New Keynesian Model

Cars Hommes, Robert Calvert Jump and Paul Levine ()

No 917, School of Economics Discussion Papers from School of Economics, University of Surrey

Abstract: This paper studies the dynamic behaviour of a workhorse New Keynesian model in which households and rms can be fully rational or internally rational. First, we derive the model with a xed proportion n of agents fully rational and a xed proportion (1-n) of agents internally rational, in a similar manner to Massaro (2013). In this model, we establish two propositions. First, a decrease in the proportion of fully rational agents does not destabilise the system if the rational expectations determinacy condition for the monetary rule holds. Second, the rational expectations determinacy condition is identical to the stability condition for the model in which all agents are internally rational. We then extend the model to include predictor selection along the lines of Branch and McGough (2010). In this model, we establish two further propositions. First, the rational expectations determinacy condition ensures local determinacy and stability as the cost of being fully rational becomes in nitely negative. Second, if the model starts from a position of indeterminacy, an increase in the xed cost of being fully rational can lead to the loss of local stability via a Hopf bifurcation. A rational route to randomness follows from this, which we explore numerically. Taken as a whole, these results indicate that complex dynamics in the internally rational New Keynesian model are closely associated with monetary policy failures. Finally, we consider the robustness of our results to changes in the monetary policy rule.

JEL-codes: E03 E12 E32 E70 E71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 59 pages
Date: 2017-11
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