Expectations and Stability in the Kaleckian Growth Model

Gilberto Tadeu LimaMark Setterfield
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This paper further explores the plausibility of the Keynesian stability condition by enriching the Kaleckian growth model with a more fully developed Keynesian theory of expectations formation.

As a result, the responsiveness of investment to changes in capacity utilization is reduced, and through mechanisms that have clear and plausible behavioural underpinnings. It therefore becomes more likely (in principle) that the Keynesian stability condition will hold in practice. The paper also explores the consequences of such re-specification of investment behaviour for certain comparative static results associated with the canonical Kaleckian growth model.

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