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The direct benefits of infrastructure in developing countries can be large, but if new infrastructure induces in-migration, congestion of other local publicly provided goods may offset the direct benefits. Using the example of rural household electrification in South Africa, we demonstrate the...
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We investigate the effects of the recently constructed Chinese national highway system on local economic outcomes. On average, roads that improve access to local markets have small or negative effects on prefecture economic activity and population. However, these averages mask a distinct pattern...
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one type of capital good to save and invest in, fixed capital investment dynamics are tightly linked to consumption … dynamics, which are similar across lumpy and frictionless investment models. With capital goods heterogeneity, households … capital adjustment frictions. We quantify our arguments by introducing inventories into a two-sector lumpy investment model …
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neoclassical growth model. Investment rates and total factor productivity start out low and rise over time. These model dynamics … distribution, which support the aggregate and micro-level implications of our theory …
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What accounts for differences in output per capita and total factor productivity (TFP) across countries? Empirical evidence points to resource misallocation across heterogeneous production units as an important factor. We study misallocation in a general equilibrium model of establishment...
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What quantitative lessons can we learn from models of endogenous technical change through innovative investments by firms for the impact of changes in the economic environment on the dynamics of aggregate productivity in the short, medium, and long run? We present a unifying model that nests a...
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We formulate a version of the growth model in which production is carried out by heterogeneous plants and calibrate it to US data. In the context of this model we argue that differences in the allocation of resources across heterogeneous plants may be an important factor in accounting for...
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find no evidence that fixed investment is the only or main source of ignition for economic growth …
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consumption, investment and international growth models, we provide a consistent synthesis. Our framework permits the analysis of …
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volume of investment. Its application to the United States economy and the economies of other major OECD nations suggests …
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