This thesis was stimulated throughout the time of my participation in a research project on Dynamic Macroeconomics, supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The starting point was the central question of how to integrate price setting firms in a dynamic disequilibrium model. Almost all rec...

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1. Verfasser:	Kaas, Leo (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 1999
Ausgabe:	1st ed. 1999
Schriftenreihe:	Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems 475
Schlagworte:	Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods Economic theory Gleichgewichtstheorie Mathematisches Modell Dynamische Makroökonomie Unvollständige Konkurrenz Hochschulschrift
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Zusammenfassung:	This thesis was stimulated throughout the time of my participation in a research project on Dynamic Macroeconomics, supported by the German Research Foundation (DFG). The starting point was the central question of how to integrate price setting firms in a dynamic disequilibrium model. Almost all recent literature on imperfect competition in macroeconomics applies the objective demand approach by assuming that firms know the true demand curve they are faced with. While this approach can be ap­ plied in temporary monetary equilibrium models, it proves inadequate for formulating price adjustment in a dynamic disequilibrium model, where it has to be replaced by the concept of subjective demand. Based on this distinction, the thesis starts out with a comparison of the concepts of subjective and objective demand in an abstract framework and surveys the literature on general equilibrium theory with imperfect competition. The objective demand approach is criticized not only on the grounds of its strong rationality requirements and existence problems, but also by the observation that it cannot be applied successfully to characterize determinate rational expectations equilibria in intertemporal macroeco­ nomics. Finally, price setting firms using subjective demand functions are integrated in a dynamic disequilibrium model in order to study mo­ nopolistic and oligopolistic price adjustment
Beschreibung:	1 Online-Ressource (XI, 155 p. 4 illus)
ISBN:	9783642584794
DOI:	10.1007/978-3-642-58479-4