What drives markups? Evolutionary pricing in an agent-based stock-flow consistent macroeconomic model

Authors
Publication date 12-2018
Journal Industrial and Corporate Change
Volume | Issue number 27 | 6
Pages (from-to) 1045-1067
Organisations
  • Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) - Amsterdam School of Economics Research Institute (ASE-RI)
Abstract This article studies coordination between firms in a multi-sectoral macroeconomic model with endogenous business cycles. Firms are both in competition and interdependent, and set their prices with a markup over unit costs. Markups are heterogeneous and evolve under market pressure. We observe a systematic coordination between firms of each sector, and between each sector. The resulting pattern of relative prices is fairly consistent with the labor theory of value. These emerging features are robust to technology shocks.
Document type Article
Note With supplementary file
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1093/icc/dty011
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