Impatience and equilibrium indeterminacy |
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Authors: | Qinglai Meng |
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Affiliation: | aDepartment of Economics, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong |
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Abstract: | This paper extends the neoclassical one-sector optimal growth model by postulating that individual agents’ time preference (impatience) depends on the economy-wide average consumption and average income, which are social factors taken as external by individual agents. The paper shows that with the socially determined individual time preference local equilibrium indeterminacy can arise. Moreover, local indeterminacy can also be associated with global indeterminacy in many cases. The results hold in models with bounded and unbounded growth. |
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Keywords: | Time preference Externalities Indeterminacy |
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