Existing growth research provides little explanation for the very large differences in long-run growth performance … across OECD countries. We show that cognitive skills can account for growth differences within the OECD, whereas a range of … economic institutions and quantitative measures of tertiary education cannot. Under the growth model estimates and plausible …

Long run economic growth goes along with structural change. Recent work has identified explanatory factors on the … demand side (non-homothetic preferences) and on the supply-side, in particular differential productivity growth across … these trends. The interplay of differences in productivity growth and in the substitution elasticity across sectors drive …

economic growth and development. In this chapter we survey important contributions in the field by focussing on the basic … structure of endogenous growth models with horizontal as well as vertical innovation and emphasizing important implications for … growth policy. We address issues like the scale effect problem, directed technological change to understand the evolution of …

R&D-based growth theory suggests that a larger population size raises either the long-run rate of economic growth … heterogeneous agents and entrepreneurial innovations in which any form of scale effect is absent. A higher population growth rate … has a negligible, possibly negative effect on the long-run growth rate of per capita income. Long-run growth is sustained …

The optimal mix of growth policies is determined within a comprehensive endogenous growth model. The analysis captures …

of R&D subsidization in a semi-endogenous growth model, by exploiting a recently developed numerical method. Starting …

This paper develops a two-sector R&D-based growth model with congestion effects from increasing urban population … slowdown in the modern sector. Eventually, economic growth may cease in the long-run. We also show that land dilution from a …

We propose an innovation-driven growth model in which education is determined by family background and cognitive … market R&D. This means that our model rationalizes two different paths to modern growth: According to the Prussian way …