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&D), which are endogenized through financial institutions. The theory and its results shed lights on the debate of convergence …
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This paper extends Grossman and Helpman’s seminal work (1991), and presents an endogenous growth model where innovations created in a high-tech sector may be assimilated or adapted by a low-tech sector. Applying a simple Heckscher-Ohlin framework, the effects of technological diffusion are...
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This paper draws on existing empirical literature and an original theoretical model to argue that globalization and skill supply affect the extent to which technology adoption in developing countries favors skilled workers. Developing countries are experiencing technical change that is...
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traces the sources of TFP growth in the UK over the last two decades through the lens of a structural model of innovation …, using registry data on the universe of firms. The dominant innovation source in the pre-GFC decade were improvements by … recovery, survey data suggests that creative destruction (i.e., innovation replacing other firms' products) is expected to gain …
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This paper extends the Schumpeterian model of creative destruction by allowing followers' cost of innovation to …
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story that many ignore or claim it cannot be replicated. Using a theory and empirical evidence, we argue that one can learn …
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This paper examines how endogenizing technological progress in a multicountry macroeconometric model affects the analysis of fiscal policies. It uses an expanded version of the IMF’s multicountry model, MULTIMOD, in which total factor productivity (TFP) is endogenized as a function of domestic...
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Standard New Keynesian (NK) models feature an optimal inflation target well below two percent, limited welfare losses from business cycle fluctuations and long-term monetary neutrality. We develop a NK framework with labour market frictions, endogenous productivity and downward wage rigidity...
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We build a two-country currency union DSGE model with endogenous growth to assess the role of cross-country differences in product and labor market regulations for long-term growth and for the adjustment to shocks. We show that with endogenous growth, there is no reason to expect real income...
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This paper presents a multisector growth model where education enhances general human capital, which is essential for increasing or maintaining the mobility of workers across industries. The paper shows that education, combined with international trade, can affect growth positively in the long...
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