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Comparative Statics by Adaptive Dynamics and The Correspondence Principle (2002)

Abstract
This paper formalizes the relation between comparative statics and the out-of-equilibrium explanation for how a system evolves after a change in parameters. The paper has two main results. First, an increase in an exogenous parameter sets o# learning dynamics that involve larger values of the endogenous variables. Second, equilibrium selections that are not monotone increasing in the exogenous variables must be predicting unstable equilibria. Moreover, under some conditions monotone comparative statics and stability are equivalent.

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Source http://www.hss.caltech.edu/~fede/wp/csfp_v43.pdf
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Keywords Monotone comparative statics, supermodularity, strategic complements
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Language English
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