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14.451 Lecture Notes Economic Growth

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George-Marios Angeletos<br />

where wt is the wage rate and pt,j is the price of intermediate good j.<br />

• Profits in the final good sector are zero, due to CRS, and the demands for each input<br />

aregivenbytheFOCs<br />

and<br />

for all j ∈ [0,Nt].<br />

wt = ∂Yt<br />

∂Lt<br />

pt,j = ∂Yt<br />

∂Xt,j<br />

7.1.3 Intermediate Good Sector<br />

=(1− α) Yt<br />

Lt<br />

µ 1−α<br />

Lt<br />

= αA<br />

Xt,j<br />

• The intermediate good sector is monopolistic. Firms understand that they face a<br />

downward sloping demand for their output.<br />

• The producer of intermediate good j solves<br />

subject to the demand curve<br />

max Πt,j = pt,jXt,j − κ(Xt,j)<br />

Xt,j = Lt<br />

µ αA<br />

pt,j<br />

1<br />

1−α<br />

,<br />

where κ(X) represents the cost of producing X in terms of final-good units.<br />

• We will let the cost function be linear:<br />

κ(X) =X.<br />

The implicit assumption behind this linear specification is that technology of producing<br />

intermediate goods is identical to the technology of producing final goods. Equivalently,<br />

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