ENDOGENOUS BUSINESS CYCLES IN OVERLAPPING-GENERATIONS ECONOMIES WITH MULTIPLE CONSUMPTION GOODS

We consider an overlapping-generations economy with two consumption goods. There are two sectors that produce a pure consumption good and a mixed good that can be either consumed or used as capital. We prove that the existence of Pareto-optimal expectations-driven fluctuations is compatible with standard sectoral technologies if the share of the pure consumption good is low enough. Following Reichlin's [<italic>Journal of Economic Theory</italic> 40 (1986), 89–102] influential conclusion, this result suggests that some fiscal policy rules can prevent business-cycle fluctuations in the economy by driving it to the optimal steady state as soon as they are announced.