We adress the issue of optimal growth when standard-of-living aspirations are transmitted from one generation to the next. We derive the condition for the optimal solution to be stable in the saddle-point sense and show that this optimal solution may display damped oscillations even when the...

We address the issue of optimal growth when standard-of-living aspirations are transmitted from one generation to the next. We derive the condition for the optimal solution to be stable in the saddle-point sense and show that this optimal solutionmay display damped oscillations even when the...

This article focuses on the scope for indeterminacies that originate from global capital stock externalities in the technological set of the reference model of the multisector optimal growth literature. These phenomena are shown to introduce a new class of intersectoral dependency in competitive...

It is argued that the large debate which had organised in the recent period about the nature of returns to scale and the associated area of local indeterminacies within competitive economies was misplaced as soon as the environment encompassed more than one good. This is established through the...

We study cycles and chaos in economic models. Autonomous dynamical systems are considered through infinite time horizon optimization models. We first show how endogenous fluctuations arise in a multisector growth model. Secondly, we consider an extension of this model by allowing direct...

This article is interested in the scope for indeterminacies that originate from capital stock externalities in the technological set of the reference model of the multisectoral optimal growth literature. Sufficient conditions for local indeterminacies and oscillations are established and rest on...

This article investigates the scope for long-run indeterminacies that result from the consideration of intersectoral external effects in a benchmark multisector growth model. Both multiple long-run positions and multiple convergent paths to a given long-run position are considered. Restrictions...