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Consumption Externality and Indeterminacy under Increasing Returns to Scale and Endogenous Capital Depreciation

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  • Gaowang Wang

    (Central University of Finance and Economics)

  • Heng-fu Zou

    (Central University of Finance and Economics)

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This paper incorporates negative consumption externality embodying "jealousy" and "running away from the Joneses" into Guo and Lansing (2007)'s model with production externality and endogenous depreciation, and examines how consumption externality helps to generate equilibrium indeterminacy together with production externality. Specifically, the existence of consumption externality reduces the upper and lower bounds of production externality for local indeterminacy, and when the degree of consumption externality increases, the upper and lower bounds of production externalities for local indeterminacy are both reduced.

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  • Gaowang Wang & Heng-fu Zou, 2014. "Consumption Externality and Indeterminacy under Increasing Returns to Scale and Endogenous Capital Depreciation," CEMA Working Papers 593, China Economics and Management Academy, Central University of Finance and Economics.
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    Keywords

    Consumption Externality; Production Externality; Indeterminacy; Endogenous Depreciation;
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    JEL classification:

    • C62 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling - - - Existence and Stability Conditions of Equilibrium
    • E21 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Consumption; Saving; Wealth
    • E22 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Investment; Capital; Intangible Capital; Capacity

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