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Price dynamics, financial fragility and aggregate volatility

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  • Antoine Mandel

    (CES - Centre d'économie de la Sorbonne - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, PSE - Paris School of Economics - UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - ENS-PSL - École normale supérieure - Paris - PSL - Université Paris sciences et lettres - EHESS - École des hautes études en sciences sociales - ENPC - École des Ponts ParisTech - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique - INRAE - Institut National de Recherche pour l’Agriculture, l’Alimentation et l’Environnement)

  • Simone Landini

    (Socioeconomic Research Institute of Piedmont - Socioeconomic Research Institute of Piedmont)

  • Mauro Gallegati

    (UNIVPM - Università Politecnica delle Marche [Ancona])

  • Herbert Gintis

    (CEU - Central European University [Budapest, Hongrie], Santa Fe Institute)

Abstract

Within a general equilibrium framework a la Long and Plosser (1983), we investigate the dynamics emerging from the interactions of households and firms that are adaptive price setters and financially constrained. Adaptive price-setting behavior induces micro founded out-of-equilibrium dynamics along which agents become heterogeneous in terms of prices and wealth. The stringency of the financial constraints determine the regime into which the model settles: either an equilibrium one or a disequilibrium one conductive to financial fragility and aggregate volatility. In this setting , we investigate how the structure of the production network a↵ects the emergence of aggregate volatility from micro-level price and financial shocks, hence providing a dynamical counterpart to recent results of Acemoglu and al (2012).

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  • Antoine Mandel & Simone Landini & Mauro Gallegati & Herbert Gintis, 2015. "Price dynamics, financial fragility and aggregate volatility," PSE - Labex "OSE-Ouvrir la Science Economique" halshs-01152302, HAL.
  • Handle: RePEc:hal:pseose:halshs-01152302
    DOI: 10.1016/j.jedc.2014.11.001
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    Macroeconomic Volatility; Agent-Based Modeling; General Equilibrium; Financial Fragility;
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    • C62 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling - - - Existence and Stability Conditions of Equilibrium
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