Production delays and price dynamics

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Authors
Publication date 02-2022
Journal Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization
Volume | Issue number 194
Pages (from-to) 341-362
Number of pages 22
Organisations
  • Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) - Amsterdam School of Economics Research Institute (ASE-RI)
  • Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB)
Abstract

This paper develops a unified analysis of the impacts of production delays on aggregate price fluctuations in a continuous-time cobweb-type model. We find that the time inconsistency between demand and supply due to production delays inherently generates an overshooting effect in prices. Large production delays give rise to price fluctuations, even with a low intensity of choice. We also provide results consistent with the rational route to randomness of Brock and Hommes (1997) in a continuous-time infinite-dimensional economy.

Document type Article
Note Financial support from the Australian Research Council (Project ID: DE180100649) is gratefully acknowledged.
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2021.12.033
Other links https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85123215661
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