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Whether or not the marginal product of capital (MPK) differs across countries is a question that keeps coming up in discussions of comparative economic development and patterns of capital flows. We use easily accessible macroeconomic data to shed light on this issue, and find that MPKs are...
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, and using a two-sector growth model, I project the future growth rate of GDP per hour in the market sector to be 2.61% p … productivity but not necessarily on its long run growth rate. I therefore predict that the UK will eventually return to the growth …
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This paper develops a model of economic growth and activity locating endogenously on a 3-dimensional featureless global … geography. The same economic forces influence simulataneously growth, convergence, and spatial agglomeration and clustering … egalitarian growth. Equality is stable but spatial inequality is needed to attain it. …
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This paper develops an idea flows theory of trade and growth with heterogeneous firms. New firms learn from incumbent … and this complementarity generates endogenous growth without scale effects. On the balanced growth path, the productivity … distribution is a traveling wave with an increasing lower bound. Growth of the lower bound causes dynamic selection. Free entry …
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This paper investigates the impact of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) on growth in an economy … incentives for investment for sectors using them, so the non-ICT using sector experiences sustained growth driven by capital … accumulation. Rates of growth across the three sectors differ, but the aggregate economy is on a balanced growth path with constant …
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Economies at early stages of development are often shaken by abrupt changes in growth rates, whereas in advanced … economies growth rates tend to be relatively stable. To explain this pattern, we propose a theory of technological … lower the volatility of output growth. Technological complexity evolves endogenously in response to profit incentives. The …
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What are the consequences of resource-based regional specialization, when it persists over a long period of time? While much of the literature argues that specialization is beneficial, recent work suggests it may be costly in the long run, due to economic or political reasons. I examine this...
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economic growth. It argues that what is most notable about the New Economy is that it is knowledge-driven, not just in the …
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Giuseppe Berlingieri looks at the structural transformation of the US economy over the past 60 years.
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Giuseppe Berlingieri looks at the structural transformation of the US economy over the past 60 years.
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