Showing 1 - 10 of 94
We investigate the short- and long-term effects of a natural gas boom in an economy where energy can be produced with coal, natural gas, or clean sources and the direction of technology is endogenous. In the short run, a natural gas boom reduces carbon emissions by inducing substitution away...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014372414
We develop an endogenous growth model with heterogeneous firms facing financial frictions, where misallocation emerges … explicitly as a crucial endogenous state variable and plays a significant role in driving economic growth through the valuation … aggregate growth. In equilibrium, slow-moving misallocation endogenously generates long-run uncertainty about economic growth by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014486238
How should industrial policies be directed to reduce distortions and foster economic development? We study this question in a multi-sector model with technology adoption, where the production of goods and modern technologies features rich network structures. We provide simple formulas for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512084
abundant. Automating productivity growth may lead to broad-based gains in the returns to all factors. By contrast, bottlenecks … to growth from irreproducible scarce factors may exacerbate the decline in wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014512109
This paper examines the impact of roads on structural transformation and business composition theoretically and empirically. We develop a two-sector model of regional trade with endogenous firm entry that highlights two opposing forces. \textit{Ceteris paribus} lower trade costs in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014544726
economy with uneven productivity growth, income effects, and consumption complementarity across sectoral outputs. During early …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014544753
To fill the knowledge gap that previous studies ignore either housing or internal urban structure and to enable better … fit with important stylized facts, we construct a two-sector optimal growth model of housing where housing is produced by … housing and housing and land prices. The model is then calibrated to fit part of the stylized facts: faster growth of housing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013388872
Transformative technologies like generative artificial intelligence promise to accelerate productivity growth across …, a higher growth rate leads to slower optimal adoption. Equilibrium adoption is inefficient when firms do not internalize …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014322848
This paper asks whether increasing productivity in the electricity sector can yield larger long-run GDP gains than suggested by electricity's small share of aggregate economic activity. We answer this question using a dynamic multi-sector model in which electricity is a strong complement to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014468241
per worker. In many models of firm dynamics, trade, and growth with a free entry condition, these facts imply that the … costs of creating a new firm increase sharply with productivity growth. This increase in entry costs can stem from the … rising cost of labor used in entry and weak or negative knowledge spillovers from prior entry. How entry costs vary with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015072915