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Nominal Adjustment Regimes in an Evolutionary Macrodynamics

Brazilian Review of Econometrics

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Title Nominal Adjustment Regimes in an Evolutionary Macrodynamics
Nominal Adjustment Regimes in an Evolutionary Macrodynamics
 
Creator Lima, Gilberto Tadeu
da Silveira, Jaylson Jair
 
Description We develop a satisficing evolutionary dynamics to provide microfoundations for (in)complete nominal adjustment. A firm can either pay a cost to update its information set and establish the optimal price (Nash strategy) or make use, without a cost, of past knowledge and try to set a price which is as close as possible to the optimal one (bounded rationality strategy). In a version without mutation, we show that only pure strategy equilibria (survival of only one strategy) emerge, although complete nominal adjustment, and thus money neutrality, is obtained in either case. As for stability, the equilibrium with extinction of Nash (bounded rationality) firms is a local attractor (repulser). In a version with mutation, in turn, while there are only mixed strategy equilibria (survival of both strategies), money is likewise neutral. And in case there is only one equilibrium, it is a local attractor. Besides, the mixed strategy equilibria of the version with mutation become two pure strategy equilibria when the mutation rate tends to zero.
We develop a satisficing evolutionary dynamics to provide microfoundations for (in)complete nominal adjustment. A firm can either pay a cost to update its information set and establish the optimal price (Nash strategy) or make use, without a cost, of past knowledge and try to set a price which is as close as possible to the optimal one (bounded rationality strategy). In a version without mutation, we show that only pure strategy equilibria (survival of only one strategy) emerge, although complete nominal adjustment, and thus money neutrality, is obtained in either case. As for stability, the equilibrium with extinction of Nash (bounded rationality) firms is a local attractor (repulser). In a version with mutation, in turn, while there are only mixed strategy equilibria (survival of both strategies), money is likewise neutral. And in case there is only one equilibrium, it is a local attractor. Besides, the mixed strategy equilibria of the version with mutation become two pure strategy equilibria when the mutation rate tends to zero.
 
Publisher Sociedade Brasileira de Econometria
 
Date 2008-05-01
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
 
Format application/pdf
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Identifier http://bibliotecadigital.fgv.br/ojs/index.php/bre/article/view/1517
10.12660/bre.v28n12008.1517
 
Source Brazilian Review of Econometrics; Vol. 28 No. 1 (2008); 51-75
Brazilian Review of Econometrics; v. 28 n. 1 (2008); 51-75
1980-2447
 
Language eng
por
 
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http://bibliotecadigital.fgv.br/ojs/index.php/bre/article/view/1517/943