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Can market power sustain endogenous growth in overlapping-generations economies?

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  • Rodolphe Dos Santos Ferreira

    (BETA-Theme, Université Louis Pasteur and Institut Universitaire de France 61, avenue de la Forêt Noire, F-67085 Strasbourg Cedex, FRANCE)

  • Teresa Lloyd-Braga

    (Universidade Católica Portuguesa, FCEE, Palma de Cima, 1649-023, Lisboa, PORTUGAL)

Abstract

Sustained endogenous growth is known to be impossible in OLG one-sector models without non-convexities and externalities, unless income is redistributed to the young generation. No redistribution proper is however necessary, as shown in two simple examples, if positive profits accruing to young monopolistic entrepreneurs can be sustained in equilibrium, and/or if young unionised workers can guarantee a non-vanishing share of aggregate income. In this context, market power appears, in two different forms, as a significant source of sustained endogenous growth.

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  • Rodolphe Dos Santos Ferreira & Teresa Lloyd-Braga, 2002. "Can market power sustain endogenous growth in overlapping-generations economies?," Economic Theory, Springer;Society for the Advancement of Economic Theory (SAET), vol. 20(1), pages 199-205.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:joecth:v:20:y:2002:i:1:p:199-205
    Note: Received: October 3, 2000; revised version: March 9, 2001
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    Cited by:

    1. Thomas Seegmuller, 2005. "On the stabilizing virtues of imperfect competition," International Journal of Economic Theory, The International Society for Economic Theory, vol. 1(4), pages 313-323, December.
    2. Seegmuller, Thomas, 2008. "Taste For Variety And Endogenous Fluctuations In A Monopolistic Competition Model," Macroeconomic Dynamics, Cambridge University Press, vol. 12(4), pages 561-577, September.
    3. Koskela, Erkki & Puhakka, Mikko, 2007. "Stability and Dynamics in an Overlapping Generations Economy with Flexible Wage Negotiations," IZA Discussion Papers 3246, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    4. Modesto, Leonor & Lloyd-Braga, Teresa & Coimbra, Rui, 2002. "Endogenous Growth Fluctuations in Unionised Economy with Productive Externalities," CEPR Discussion Papers 3230, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
    5. Erkki Koskela & Mikko Puhakka, 2006. "Stability and Dynamics in an Overlapping Generations Economy under Flexible Wage Negotiation and Capital Accumulation," CESifo Working Paper Series 1840, CESifo.

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    Keywords

    Endogenous growth; Overlapping generations; Imperfect competition in macroeconomics.;
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    JEL classification:

    • E20 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - General (includes Measurement and Data)
    • O41 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity - - - One, Two, and Multisector Growth Models

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