We accomplish two tasks to characterize aggregate price stickiness in this paper. First, we endogenize β, the fraction of the firms keeping their price unchanged following a money supply shock in the near-rationality model (Akerlof and Yellen, 1985) by introducing a distribution of price-adjustment barriers among the firms into the near-rationality model. Second, as β can be considered an indic...

The mechanism by which aggregate supply creates the income that generates its matching demand (called Say’s Law), may not work in a general equilibrium with decentralized markets and savings in bonds or money. Full employment is an equilibrium, but convergence to that state is slow. A self-fulfilling precautionary motive to accumulate bonds (with a zero aggregate supply) can set the economy on ...

In the fast growing literature that addresses the problem of the optimal bidding behaviour of power generation companies that sell energy in electricity auctions, it is always assumed that every firm knows the aggregate supply function of its competitors. Since this information is generally not available, real data have to be substituted by predictions. In this paper we propose two alternative ...

This paper studies under which conditions the share of profit in value added, financial constraints on investment and capital shortage may foster unemployment and may limit the growth of capital and/or the growth of aggregate demand, in a stock-flow consistent model. The efficiency of demand side versus supply side economic policies (decrease of the real interest rate and/or of the real wage, i...

Supply chain management that considers the flow of raw materials, products and information has become a focal issue in modern manufacturing and service systems. Supply chain management requires effective use of assets and information that has far reaching implications beyond satisfaction of customer demand, flow of goods, services or capital. Aggregate planning, a fundamental decision model in ...

We provide a general framework for the study of cascade effects created by interconnections between sectors, firms or financial institutions. Focusing on a multi sector economy linked through a supply network, we show how structural properties of the supply network determine both whether aggregate volatility disappears as the number of sectors increases (i.e., whether the law of large numbers h...

This paper investigates the impact of a change in aggregate credit supply on firm dynamics in an economy with financial frictions. We model a lifetime lending relationship between banks and firms in a general equilibrium framework with households making endogenous occupational decision. Financial markets are endogenously incomplete due to asymmetric information, and financial constraints emerge...

The article uses a structural vector autoregressive (SVAR) model under some well agreed-on long-run neutrality assumption to identify the aggregate demand (AD) and aggregate supply curve (AS) in West Germany and the UK. The empirical results indicate similarities and contrasts in macroeconomic behaviour across both countries. A main result is that the UK is characterized by much larger output a...