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Endogenous Debt Constraints in Lifecycle Economies

Azariadis, Costas
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Lambertini, Luisa  
2003
Review of Economic Studies

We characterize competitive equilibria with perfect foresight in a deterministic, three-period pure-exchange overlapping generations economy with perfect information and no commitment to loan contracts. Commitment is replaced by an enforcement mechanism that excludes defaulters from asset markets for one period. For hump- shaped endowment profiles, young individuals face endogenous debt constraints that ration current consumption. Changes in current and future yields affect these constraints, inducing an additional income effect on rationed household demand that makes current and future consumption complements. This mechanism can lead to multiple steady states, persistent indeterminacy and regime switching. We show that sensitivity to shocks and complex dynamic behavior are consistent with endogenous debt limits but not with exogenous liquidity constraints.

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research article
DOI
10.1111/1467-937X.00252
Author(s)
Azariadis, Costas
Lambertini, Luisa  
Date Issued

2003

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Published in
Review of Economic Studies
Issue

70

Start page

461

End page

487

Note

JEL Classification: E32, D91, D52

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

Written at

OTHER

EPFL units
SFI-LL  
Available on Infoscience
July 16, 2007
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