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Exit and Entry, Increasing Returns to Specialization, and Business Cycles

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  • Devereux, Michael B.
  • Head, Allen C.
  • Lapham, Beverly J.

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The effects of entry and exit by monopolistically competitive intermediate goods producers on equilibrium business cycles are analyzed in the presence of internal returns to scale and external returns to specialization. In the environment studied, market power and endogenous entry and exit, in themselves, have little effect on the propagation of technology shocks. In contrast, internal returns to scale dampen the effects of these shocks while external returns to specialization produce a multiplier which accentuates their effects. The multiplier arises as entry and exit of firms over the business cycle causes endogenous fluctuations in the productivity of intermediate inputs. These endogenous productivity fluctuations cause the Solow residual both to mismeasure technology shocks and to be strongly correlated with government spending shocks. The results also indicate that the extent to which technology shock can account for aggregate fluctuations may be greater than suggested by competitive real business cycle models.
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  • Devereux, Michael B. & Head, Allen C. & Lapham, Beverly J., 1993. "Exit and Entry, Increasing Returns to Specialization, and Business Cycles," Queen's Economics Department Working Papers 273263, Queen's University - Department of Economics.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:quedwp:273263
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.273263
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    1. Tonni, Lorenzo, 2022. "Business cycle and factor income shares: a VAR sign restriction approach," MPRA Paper 114586, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    2. Ambler, Steve & Cardia, Emanuela & Farazli, Jeannine, 1999. "Export promotion, learning by doing and growth," Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, Elsevier, vol. 23(5-6), pages 747-772, April.
    3. Satyajit Chatterjee & Russell Cooper, 2014. "Entry And Exit, Product Variety, And The Business Cycle," Economic Inquiry, Western Economic Association International, vol. 52(4), pages 1466-1484, October.
    4. Boyan Jovanovic & Saul Lach, 1993. "Diffusion Lags and Aggregate Fluctuations. New Name: Product Innovation and the Business Cycle," NBER Working Papers 4455, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    5. Franck Portier, 1995. "Le rôle des variations de taux de marge dans les fluctuations macroéconomiques conjoncturelles," L'Actualité Economique, Société Canadienne de Science Economique, vol. 71(2), pages 218-249.
    6. Tonni, Lorenzo, 2023. "Business cycle and factor income shares: a VAR sign restrictions approach," MPRA Paper 116527, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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    • E32 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles - - - Business Fluctuations; Cycles

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