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Growth and welfare under endogenous lifetime
Schneider, Maik T.; Winkler, Ralph - 2017 - This Version: February 2017
We study the role of endogenous healthcare choices by households to extend their expected lifetimes on economic growth and welfare in a decentralized overlapping generations economy with the realistic feature that households' savings are held in annuities. We characterize healthcare spending in...
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Structural change in production networks and economic growth
Gaggl, Paul; Gorry, Aspen; Vom Lehn, Christian - 2023
This paper studies structural change in production networks for intermediate inputs (input-output network) and new capital (investment network). For each network, we document a declining fraction of production by goods sectors and a rising fraction of production by services sectors. We develop a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014285534
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Energy efficiency and directed technical change : implications for climate change mitigation
Casey, Gregory - 2022
I build a quantitative model of economic growth that can be used to evaluate the impact of environmental policy interventions on final-use energy consumption, an important driver of carbon emissions. In the model, energy demand is driven by directed technical change. Energy supply is subject to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012817938
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Technological growth and hours in the long run : theory and evidence
Reif, Magnus; Tesfaselassie, Mewael F.; Wolters, Maik H. - 2021
Over the last decades, hours worked per capita have declined substantially in many OECD economies. Using a neoclassical growth model with endogenous work-leisure choice, we assess the role of trend growth slowdown in accounting for the decline in hours worked. In the model, a permanent reduction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012546895
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The diffusion of technological progress in ICT
Elstner, Steffen; Grimme, Christian; Kecht, Valentin; … - 2020
We study whether technology gains in sectors related to Information and Communications Technology (ICT) increase productivity in the rest of the economy. To separate exogenous gains in ICT from other technological progress, we use the relative price of ICT goods and services in a structural VAR...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012391362
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The supply of hours worked and fluctuations between growth regimes
Iong, Ka-Kit; Irmen, Andreas - 2021
Declining hours of work per worker in conjunction with a growing work force may give rise to fluctuations between growth regimes. This is shown in an overlapping generations model with two-period lived individuals endowed with Boppart-Krusell preferences (Boppart and Krusell (2020)). On the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012499514
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Factor income distribution and endogenous economic growth : when Piketty meets Romer
Irmen, Andreas; Tabaković, Amer - 2016
We scrutinize Thomas Piketty's (2014) theory concerning the relationship between an economy's long-run growth rate, its … of Piketty's Second Fundamental Law of Capitalism does not hold. In line with Piketty's theory a smaller long-run growth …, both the economy's savings rate and its growth rate are endogenous variables whereas in Piketty's theory they are both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011568791
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Green technology adoption and the business cycle
Bourgeon, Jean-Marc; Hovsepian, Margot - 2017
We analyze the adoption of green technology in a dynamic economy affected by random shocks where demand spillovers are the main driver of technological improvements. Firms' beliefs and consumers' anticipations drive the path of the economy. We derive the optimal policy of investment subsidy and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011657885
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Unemployment and the direction of technical change
Casey, Gregory - 2024
I construct and analyze a growth model in which technical change can increase unemployment. I first analyze the forces that deliver a constant steady state unemployment rate in this setting. Labor-saving technical change increases unemployment, which lowers wages and creates incentives for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014583789
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Inequality and growth : the dual role of human capital in development
Eicher, Theo S. - 2000
To examine how human capital accumulation influences both economic growth and income inequality, we carefully endogenize the demand and supply of skills. We explicitly introduce the costs and externalities in education, and examine how both relate to learning-by-doing and R&D intensity. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781636