The paper is concerned with the implications of imperfect competition and endogenous determination of the number of firms for endogenous fluctuations in the simple overlapping generations model. If firms have market power on output markets and there is free entry, such that the number of firms...

The paper introduces an abstract economy with imperfect competition; the choice of allocation takes place through an abstract mechanism, when produceres choose strategies and the outcome is (a set of) feasible allocations, where the consumers' choices are sustained by the market mechanism at...