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Why Macroeconomic Price Indices are Sluggish in Large Economies ?

In: The Complex Networks of Economic Interactions

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  • Masanao Aoki

    (University of California)

  • Hiroshi Yoshikawa

    (University of Tokyo)

Abstract

Summary Two new reasons are discussed for sluggish behavior of macroeconomic variables such as price indices. One is slow spread of the news of microeconomic idiosyncratic shocks in the economy, when the economy is organized into tree structures of heterogeneous subgroups or clusters of agents or goods. Clusters are not symmetrically treated, but the concept of ultrametric distances measure disparities or similarities of clusters. Another is the effects of uncertainties that affect decision processes, such as about the cost surfaces, or about the shapes of cost landscapes which may have many local minima which are not known precisely. Effectiveness of many search algorithm is reduced in the face of this kind of uncertainty. Flat cost landscapes, called entropic barriers, are discussed as an example.

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  • Masanao Aoki & Hiroshi Yoshikawa, 2006. "Why Macroeconomic Price Indices are Sluggish in Large Economies ?," Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, in: Akira Namatame & Taisei Kaizouji & Yuuji Aruka (ed.), The Complex Networks of Economic Interactions, pages 17-36, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:lnechp:978-3-540-28727-8_2
    DOI: 10.1007/3-540-28727-2_2
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