Full Industry Equilibrium

Full Industry Equilibrium
Author: Arrigo Opocher
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2015-05-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1316381269

This highly original book develops a systematic zero-net-profit comparative statics theory of the firm that challenges many widely held views in microeconomics. It builds a bridge between the marginalist long-run theory of the firm and Sraffian theory to create a unified theoretical framework that explains how firms react to exogenous shocks resulting in new equilibrium positions of the whole economy. The central message of the book is that too often economists expect more from the microeconomic laws of input demand and output supply than they can really give. The authors show that the zero-net-profit condition requires a more articulated analysis that sometimes yields qualitative results contrary to those of familiar economic laws. Written for academic researchers and graduate students, the book will be of particular interest to those working on the microeconomics of industry equilibrium, comparative statics and Sraffian economics.

Full Industry Equilibrium

Full Industry Equilibrium
Author: Arrigo Opocher
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2015-05-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1107097797

This original book develops a systematic zero-net-profit comparative statics theory to shed new light on the microeconomics of industry equilibrium.

Symposium on Arrigo Opocher and Ian Steedman ([Opocher, A., 2015]), Full Industry Equilibrium. A Theory of the Industrial Long Run, Cambridge

Symposium on Arrigo Opocher and Ian Steedman ([Opocher, A., 2015]), Full Industry Equilibrium. A Theory of the Industrial Long Run, Cambridge
Author: Enrico Bellino
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
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After an editorial that motivates the symposium on the book by Arrigo Opocher and Ian Steedman, there are comments by five scholars (in alphabetical order). These deal with capital theoretic issues (Bellino), the labour demand curve (Bidard), the zero-excess-profit position in alternative theories of value (Fratini), the role of intermediate as opposed to final products in the setting of prices (Harcourt) and the role of time in the analysis (Yoshihara). Then follows a response by Opocher and Steedman.

Industry Equilibrium with Random Exit or Default

Industry Equilibrium with Random Exit or Default
Author: Svetlana Boyarchenko
Publisher:
Total Pages: 29
Release: 2006
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An industry consisting of a large number of small (fixed size) firms subject to idiosyncratic productivity shocks is considered. At the moment of entry, a firm takes on debt. We demonstrate that in a competitive equilibrium, some firms exit and pay out their debt while others choose to default. The outcome depends on the realization of firm specific shocks. We solve for the long-run equilibrium price of output and borrowing rate and derive the stationary distribution of active firms for two scenarios of the initial distribution of productivity shocks. Dependence of equilibrium variables on the leverage is examined.

Consumer Substitution Effects Under Full Industry Equilibrium

Consumer Substitution Effects Under Full Industry Equilibrium
Author: Ian Steedman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2005
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To be of practical use comparative statics must be able to compare long-period equilibria. Such equilibria will almost never have price vectors that are proportional with respect to all prices but one - yet such price vectors are precisely those underlying the usual substitution effect analysis. We consider how this tension may be resolved.