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We introduce firm and worker heterogeneity into a model of innovation-driven endogenous growth. Individuals who differ …-determination of growth and income inequality in both the closed and open economy, as well as the spillover effects of policy and …
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According to national accounts data, value added per worker is much higher in the non-agricultural sector than in agriculture in the typical country, and particularly so in developing countries. Taken at face value, this "agricultural productivity gap" suggests that labor is greatly misallocated...
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-producing sectors has fallen. Using a dynamic general equilibrium model, we find that rapid productivity growth in goods production, not …
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the famous Encyclopédie in mid-18th century France. We show that subscriber density is a strong predictor of city growth … in the cross-section, but they do not predict growth. Finally, by joining data on British patents with a large French …
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U.S. labor and total-factor productivity growth slowed prior to the Great Recession. The timing rules out explanations … intensively, consistent with a return to normal productivity growth after nearly a decade of exceptional IT-fueled gains. A … calibrated growth model suggests trend productivity growth has returned close to its 1973-1995 pace. Slower underlying …
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growth, and find that it has a robust negative effect on GDP growth. This link coexists with the negative link between … variance and growth typically found in the literature. To explain the link between crises and growth we present a model where … contract enforce-ability problems generate borrowing constraints and impede growth. In the set of financially liberalized …
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This paper constructs a model of non-balanced economic growth. The main economic force is the combination of … models, non-balanced growth is shown to be consistent with an asymptotic equilibrium with constant interest rate and capital … consistent with US data. In particular, the model generates more rapid growth of employment in less capital-intensive sectors …
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The aggregate neoclassical growth model - with means-tested subsidies whose replacement rates began rising at the end …
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Europeans restricted their fertility long before the Demographic Transition. By raising the marriage age of women and …-economic institution in history that limited fertility through delayed marriage. Our model emphasizes changes in agricultural production …
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We study how exploration versus exploitation innovations impact economic growth through a tractable endogenous growth … regularities regarding innovation and growth differences across the firm size distribution. We also incorporate patent citations … and small firms have relatively higher growth spillover effects. …
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