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Rigidités microéconomiques, flexibilité macroéconomique. L'émergence d'une macro-économie de la spécificité et de l'irréversibilité

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[fre] En présence d'actifs spécifiques, la réaction optimale d'une unité individuelle à des chocs exogènes est non linéaire et discontinue. Il faut donc reconstruire les grandeurs macroéconomiques, en agrégeant ces réponses individuelles discrètes. La spécificité des actifs affecte aussi les facteurs de production, qui doivent se partager la quasi rente tirée de leur collaboration. Le fonctionnement du marché externe a tendance à déprimer le prix du facteur non spécifique, flexible, pour rémunérer le facteur spécifique. Cette caractéristique se traduit par un sous investissement, des destructions excessives, et par une accentuation de la réponse cyclique d'une économie à facteurs spécifiques. [eng] When using specific assets, the optimal reaction of a production unit to exogeneous shocks is highly non-linear. As a consequence, macroeconomic variables have to be build up by aggregating individual reactions. Asset specificity influences also the factors of production, which have to share the quasi-rent obtained by their collaboration. The working of the market depresss the price of the non specific, flexible factor, in order to reward the specific factor. Investment is depressed and excessive destruction occurs, while the cyclical response of a rigid factor economy is more elastic than that of a flexible factor one.

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  • Xavier Galiègue, 1999. "Rigidités microéconomiques, flexibilité macroéconomique. L'émergence d'une macro-économie de la spécificité et de l'irréversibilité," Cahiers d'Économie Politique, Programme National Persée, vol. 35(1), pages 19-36.
  • Handle: RePEc:prs:caecpo:cep_0154-8344_1999_num_35_1_1260
    DOI: 10.3406/cep.1999.1260
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