Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/75630 
Year of Publication: 
1999
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 224
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
We analyze whether different learning abilities of firms with respect to general equilibrium effects lead to different levels of unemployment. We consider a general equilibrium model where firms in one sector compete à la Cournot and a real wage rigidity leads to unemployment. If firms consider only partial equilibrium effects when choosing quantities, the observation of general equilibrium feedback effects will lead to repeated quantity adjustments until a steady state is reached. When labor is im mobile across industries, unempolyment in the steady state is lower than when all general equilibrium effects are incorporated at once. The opposite result is true if labor is mobile.
Subjects: 
Product markets
Cournot competition
learning of general equilibrium effects
unemployment
JEL: 
D58
E24
J60
L13
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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