TY - JOUR
T1 - Can market power sustain endogenous growth in overlapping-generations economies?
AU - Ferreira, Rodolphe dos Santos
AU - Lloyd-Braga, Teresa
PY - 2002/8/1
Y1 - 2002/8/1
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Endogenous growth
KW - Imperfect competition in macroeconomics
KW - Overlapping generations
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0036706486&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s001990100190
DO - 10.1007/s001990100190
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0036706486
SN - 0938-2259
VL - 20
SP - 199
EP - 205
JO - Economic Theory
JF - Economic Theory
IS - 1
ER -