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The Dynamics of a Simple Relative Adjustment Cost Framework

  • Gustav Feichtinger , Peter M. Kort , Richard F. Hartl and Franz Wirl
From the journal German Economic Review

Abstract

This paper considers a capital accumulation model with the specific feature that adjustment costs depend on investment relative to the size of the capital stock. This framework has, beyond its plausible yet neglected setting, a number of interesting consequences. In particular, the possibility of multiple equilibria, of an unstable steady state and thus of a (`history dependent') threshold associated with concavity is surprising given a voluminous literature on multiple, history-dependent equilibria emphasizing non-concavities (or convexities).

Published Online: 2019-11-30
Published in Print: 2001-08-01

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