Public intermediate goods, endogenous growth, and indeterminacy

This paper presents analysis of indeterminacy and endogenous growth in a simple one-sector model of capital accumulation, in which the presence of public intermediate goods creates a positive externality in the production of final goods. In our model, public intermediate goods are assumed to be a stock variable (similar to public capital goods). According to the existence of public intermediate goods, the model generates transitional dynamics and then the intertemporal elasticity of substitution that is particularly critical to local indeterminacy. The possibility of indeterminacy is demonstrably consistent with plausible parameter values.