Entry and Exit, Product Variety and the Business Cycle

45 Pages Posted: 18 Aug 2000 Last revised: 21 Dec 2022

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Satyajit Chatterjee

Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia

Russell Cooper

University of Texas at Austin - Department of Economics; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Date Written: December 1993

Abstract

We study the stochastic behavior of a dynamic general equilibrium model with monopolistic competition. Each seller sells his product in the consumption goods as well as the investment goods market and has market power in both. Consumers derive utility from a CES aggregate of all the consumption goods and augment their capital stock by a CES aggregate of all the investment goods. We analyze the equilibrium of this economy allowing for an endogenous determination of the number of firms and therefore of products. The principal effect we highlight is the endogenous propagation and magnification of technology and preference disturbances through product space variations.

Suggested Citation

Chatterjee, Satyajit and Cooper, Russell W., Entry and Exit, Product Variety and the Business Cycle (December 1993). NBER Working Paper No. w4562, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=226779

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