Increasing evidence support the claim that international trade enhances innovation and productivity growth through an … increase in competition. This paper develops a two-country endogenous growth model, with form speciffic R&D and a continuum of … growth by reducing domestic forms market power. …

growth may indeed induce economic fluctuations. To this purpose, it adds an adoption lag to an otherwise standard endogenous … growth and business fluctuations is not only theoretically possible but quantitatively relevant. Finally, the paper … quantitatively finds that a procyclical 10% subsidy rate halving consumption fluctuations will increase the growth rate from 2.4% to …

endogenous growth model where selection and imitation play a fundamental role in helping capital good producers to learn about … relevant for the embodied capital literature, among them the growth rate of the relative investment price, the model … size distribution. In line with the previous literature, it also predicts a contribution to productivity growth of embodied …

The nineteenth century was a time of substantial changes in the patterns of economic growth. This was also a period of … significant fluctuations in the structure of and allocation of political rights. Through successive franchise extensions … patterns of economic growth and political voice are not coincidental. In this paper we develop a general equilibrium model of …

show that the two measures behave differently in standard growth regressions and argue that this is because the standard … model is a mis-specification in this context. Casualties appear to affect growth more in smaller populations. We argue that …