Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2014
Journal / Book Title
Economic Theory
Abstract
We provide a sufficient condition on the production function under which eventually the most patient household owns the entire capital stock in every Ramsey equilibrium, called the turnpike property. This generalizes the result in the literature which establishes the turnpike property using the capital income monotonicity condition. We then provide an example of a Ramsey equilibrium in which the most patient household reaches a no capital position infinitely often. This is a strong refutation of the turnpike property on Ramsey equilibria. We also show that the constructed Ramsey equilibrium is inefficient in terms of the aggregate consumption stream that it provides.
DOI
10.1007/s00199-013-0767-x
MSU Digital Commons Citation
Becker, Robert A.; Dubey, Ram; and Mitra, Tapan, "On Ramsey Equilibrium: Capital Ownership Pattern and Inefficiency" (2014). Department of Economics Faculty Scholarship and Creative Works. 47.
https://digitalcommons.montclair.edu/economics-facpubs/47
Published Citation
Becker, R. A., Dubey, R. S., & Mitra, T. (2014). On Ramsey equilibrium: capital ownership pattern and inefficiency. Economic Theory, 55(3), 565-600.