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Does capital accumulation increase labor demand and wages? Neoclassical production functions, where capital and labor are q-complements, ensure that the answer is yes, so long as labor markets are competitive. This result critically depends on the assumption that capital accumulation does not...
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This paper makes the case that purposive, profit-seeking investments in knowledge play a critical role in the long-run growth process. First, we review the implications of neoclassical growth theory and the more recent theories of 'endogenous growth'. Then we discuss the empirical evidence that...
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. After linking these ideas to the induced innovation literature of the 1960s and the more recent directed technological …
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Is there a trade-off between fluctuations and growth? The empirical evidence is mixed, with some studies (Kormendi and Meguire (1985)) finding a positive relationship, while others (Ramey and Ramey (1995)) finding the a negative one. Our objective in this paper is to understand how fundamental...
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Is financial innovation necessary for sustaining economic growth? To address this question, we build a Schumpeterian … innovation: they can invent better methods for screening entrepreneurs. Second, every screening process becomes less effective as … technology advances. The model predicts that technological innovation and economic growth eventually stop unless financiers …
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