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Indeterminacy with No-Income-Effect Preferences and Sector-Specifc Externalities

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  • Sharon Harrison

    () (Barnard College, Columbia University)

  • Jang-Ting Guo

    () (UC-Riverside)

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We examine a two-sector real business cycle model with sector-specifc ex-ternalities in the production of distinct consumption and investment goods. In addition, the household utility is postulated to exhibit no income effect on the demand for leisure. Unlike in the one-sector counterpart, we show that equilibrium indeterminacy can result with sufficiently high returns-to-scale in the production of investment goods. We also find that the lower the labor supply elasticity, the lower the threshold level of returns-to-scale needed for generating indeterminacy and sunspots. This Finding turns out to be exactly the opposite of that in all existing RBC-based indeterminacy studies.

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Paper provided by Barnard College, Department of Economics in its series Working Papers with number 0801.

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Length: 13 pages
Date of creation: Jun 2008
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Handle: RePEc:brn:wpaper:0801

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Keywords: Indeterminacy; Income Effect; Sector-Specific Externalities.;

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  1. Nishimura, Kazuo & Venditti, Alain, 2010. "Indeterminacy and expectation-driven fluctuations with non-separable preferences," Mathematical Social Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 60(1), pages 46-56, July.

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