Lumpy Investment, Sectoral Propagation, and Business Cycles



term is equal to N log((1 δ)∕g)/ log λ. The first term converges to m1 by the argument
in the previous paragraph. Let us study m
1. By the assumption that sj,t follows a
uniform distribution, we obtain Pr(s
0 < 0) = μ. Then the number of producers who
adjust their capital at the first step, m
1, follows a binomial distribution Bin(N,μ). By
the central limit theorem, m
1∕-√zN VNμ asymptotically follows a normal distribution
with mean zero and variance μ(1
μ). Combining these results, we obtain that m0/y∕N
asymptotically follows a normal distribution with mean zero and variance μ(1 μ).

Next we examine mu conditional to mu-1. We have Pr(j Hu|j /
v=1,2,...,u-1Hv) = φ(log ku log ku-1)/ log λ.     Thus mu follows Bin(N

u=1 mv, φ(log ku log ku-1)/ log λ). This defines the stochastic process mu completely.
As we let ξ
1 and N → ∞, the binomial converges to a Poisson distribution with
an asymptotic mean φm
u-1 .

Since a Poisson distribution is infinitely divisible, the Poisson variable with mean
φm
u-1 is equivalent to a mu-1 -times convolution of a Poisson variable with mean φ.
Thus the process m
u is a branching process with a step random variable being a Poisson
with mean φ. Since φ
1, the process mu reaches 0 by a finite stopping time with
probability one. Thus the best response dynamics is a valid algorithm of equilibrium
selection. Let T denote the stopping time. Using the asymptotic formula, we have
W
T=1 mu. By using the property of a Poisson branching process (Kingman
(1993)), we obtain the infinitely divisible distribution for the accumulated sum W =
t=1 mu as in the proposition.

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