A BEJTE Contributions article.

Abstract

In the present paper stationary pure-exchange overlapping generations economies with L goods per date and M consumers per generation are considered. It is shown that for an open and dense set of utility functions there exist endowment vectors such that N-cycles exist for N less than or equal to L+1 and L less than or equal to M. The approach to existence of endogenous fluctuations is basic in the sense that the prime ingredients are the implicit function theorem and linear algebra. Moreover it is sketched how the approach can be applied to show that for an open and dense set of utility functions there exist endowment vectors such that sunspot equilibria, where prices at every date only depends on the state at that date, exist.

Submitted: October 30, 2008 · Accepted: April 10, 2009 · Published: May 15, 2009

Recommended Citation

Tvede, Mich (2009) "Fluctuations in Overlapping Generations Economies," The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics: Vol. 9 : Iss. 1 (Contributions), Article 16.
DOI: 10.2202/1935-1704.1533
Available at: http://www.bepress.com/bejte/vol9/iss1/art16