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Thierry Paul

Membre affilié Aix-Marseille UniversitéFaculté d'économie et de gestion (FEG)(en détachement à l'ESRI des Hauts-de-France)

Macroéconomie, économie du travail et économie internationale
Statut
Professeur des universités
Domaine(s) de recherche
Économie internationale et géographique
Résumé In familiar models, a decrease in the friction facing mobile factors (e.g., lowering their adjustment costs) increases a coordination problem, leading to more circumstances where there are multiple equilibria. We show that a decrease in friction can decrease coordination problems when a production externality arises from a changing stock, e.g. of pollution or knowledge. In general, the relation between the amount of friction that mobile factors face and the likelihood of multiple equilibria is non-monotonic.
Mots clés Costs of adjustment, Multiple equilibria, Factor reallocation, Intersectoral migration, Learning-by-doing, Coordination games, Cross-sectoral pollution